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100 1 $aTruss, Lynne.
245 10 $aEats, shoots & leaves :$bthe zero tolerance approach to punctuation /$cLynne Truss ; [foreword by Frank McCourt].
246 3 $aEats, shoots, and leaves
246 30 $aZero tolerance approach to punctuation
250 $a[1st American ed.]
260 $aNew York :$bGotham Books,$c2004, c2003.
300 $axxvii, 209 p. ;$c19 cm.
500 $aOriginally published in Great Britain in 2003 by Profile Books.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 205-209).
505 0 $aThe seventh sense -- The tractable apostrophe -- That'll do, comma -- Airs and graces -- Cutting a dash -- A little used punctuation mark -- Merely conventional signs.
520 $aThis is a book for people who love punctuation and get upset when it is mishandled. From George Orwell shunning the semicolon, to New Yorker editor Harold Ross's epic arguments with James Thurber over commas, this ... history makes a powerful case for the preservation of a system of printing conventions that is much too subtle to the mucked about with.-Dust jacket.
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