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'Eats, Shoots and Leaves'
2007-04-27 11:42:48

English punctuation can baffle even people for whom this is their mother-tongue – so heaven help all the rest of you out there for whom English is a second language! Because correct punctuation really does matter. For those of you who despair about where to place an apostrophe or when to use a semi-colon, help is at hand: British journalist Lynne Truss has written a surprise best-seller about punctuation called “Eats, Shoots and Leaves” (a deliberate error to show how a superfluous comma can change the whole meaning of a panda’s life). She sub-titles it “The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation”. Published by Profile Books (ISBN no: 1 86197 6127), if the book is not available locally, try Amazon.com.

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