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02531aam a2200373 a 4500 001 C08805A4AD8011E7B2CCD40B97128E48 003 SILO 005 20171010010142 008 090701s2008 nyua j 000 0 eng d 010 $a 2009291769 020 $a 1592403913 020 $a 9781592403912 035 $a (OCoLC)191929236 040 $a BTCTA $c BTCTA $d DLC $d BAKER $d YDXCP $d HCO $d ZHX $d F4B $d VP@ $d Y4Q $d SILO 042 $a lccopycat 100 1 $a Truss, Lynne. 245 10 $a Eats, shoots & leaves : $b the zero toleration approach to punctuation / $c by Lynne Truss ; illustrated by Pat Byrnes. 246 3 $a Eats, shoots and leaves 250 $a Illustrated ed. 260 $a New York : $b Gotham Books $c c2008. 300 $a 176 p. : $b col. ill. ; $c 25 cm. 500 $a "Originally published in Great Britain in 2003 by Profile Books, Ltd."--T.p. verso. 500 $a With a foreword by Frank McCourt (2004). 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. 172-173). 505 0 $a Introduction: The seventh sense -- The tractable apostrophe -- That'll do, comma -- Airs and graces -- Cutting a dash -- A little used punctuation mark -- Merely conventional signs. 520 $a We all know the basics of punctuation. Or do we? A look at most neighborhood signage tells a different story. Through sloppy usage and low standards on the internet, in email, and now text messages, we have made proper punctuation an endangered species. In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Lynne Truss dares to say, in her delightfully urbane, witty, and very English way, that it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them as the wonderful and necessary things they are. This is a book for people who love punctuation and get upset when it is mishandled. From the invention of the question mark in the time of Charlemagne to George Orwell shunning the semicolon, this lively history makes a powerful case for the preservation of a system of printing conventions that is much too subtle to be mucked about with. 650 0 $a English language $x Punctuation $v Juvenile literature. 650 0 $a Comma $v Juvenile literature. 700 1 $a Byrnes, Pat, $e ill. 856 42 $3 Contributor biographical information $u http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0913/2009291769-b.html 856 42 $3 Publisher description $u http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0913/2009291769-d.html 941 $a 1 952 $l I6OX771 $d 20220719010929.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C08805A4AD8011E7B2CCD40B97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search