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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
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2003
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41 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
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2005
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31 editions
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference!
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2006
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3 editions
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Cat Out of Hell
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2014
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14 editions
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Eats, Shoots and Leaves: 2007 Calendar
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The Girl's Like Spaghetti: Why, You Can't Manage Without Apostrophes!
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2007
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2 editions
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A Shot in the Dark (Constable Twitten #1)
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2018
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10 editions
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Twenty-Odd Ducks: Why, Every Punctuation Mark Counts!
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2008
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The Lunar Cats
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2016
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6 editions
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Making the Cat Laugh
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1995
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9 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.”
― 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.”
― 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.”
― Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
― Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
“The rule is: don’t use commas like a stupid person. I mean it.”
― Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
― Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
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