Lynne Truss’s book “eloquently speaks to the value of punctuation in preserving the nuances of language,” slobbers one adoring reviewer—one among many—and yet Truss commits oodles of punctuation errors throughout her own usage book on punctuation, including one on the cover: there should be a hyphen between “Zero” and “Tolerance.” Humanity sets up rules to govern English, but English rolls onward, a juggernaut crushing all in its path.*7
