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Lynne Truss
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Kingston upon Thames, England, The United Kingdom
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
— published 2003 — 29 editions |
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Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door
— published 2005 — 23 editions |
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference!
by Lynne Truss, Bonnie Timmons — published 2006 — 3 editions |
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The Girl's Like Spaghetti: Why, You Can't Manage without Apostrophes!
by Lynne Truss, Bonnie Timmons — published 2007 — 2 editions |
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Twenty-Odd Ducks: Why, every punctuation mark counts!
by Lynne Truss, Bonnie Timmons — published 2008 |
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The Lynne Truss Treasury: Columns and Three Comic Novels
— published 2005 — 5 editions |
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Making the Cat Laugh
— published 1995 — 9 editions |
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With One Lousy Free Packet Of Seed
— published 2005 — 7 editions |
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Get Her Off the Pitch! How sport took over my life
— published 2009 — 4 editions |
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Going Loco
— published 2011 — 8 editions |
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“A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.
"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife annual and tosses it over his shoulder.
"I'm a panda," he says, at the door. "Look it up."
The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.
Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.”
― Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife annual and tosses it over his shoulder.
"I'm a panda," he says, at the door. "Look it up."
The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.
Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.”
― Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
“Thurber was asked by a correspondent: "Why did you have a comma in the sentence, 'After dinner, the men went into the living-room'?" And his answer was probably one of the loveliest things ever said about punctuation. "This particular comma," Thurber explained, "was Ross's way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up.”
― Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
― Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
“The rule is: don’t use commas like a stupid person. I mean it.”
― Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
― Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
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