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\"Apostrophes\"The book Eats, Shoots & Leaves <\/i>is only available in the UK at the moment, but the author has received an advance for a US edition, one would hope in time for the 2004 holiday season. It sounds like just my kind of book.<\/a><\/p>\n

A book about the serial abuse of apostrophes and commas, which readers of The Telegraph helped to write, has become a surprise Christmas bestseller.
\nEats, Shoots & Leaves (subtitled The Zero Tolerance Approach To Punctuation) chronicles “the mind-bogglingly depressing misuse of the apostrophe”. Last night it was the number one bestseller on the Amazon.co.uk chart – a position usually reserved for thrillers or books about boy wizards.
\nThe author, Lynne Truss, said yesterday that she felt moved to describe the feeling of being “an isolated nerd” because the sight of a misplaced apostrophe or absent comma made her feel irritated, and occasionally violent.<\/p>\n

Meantime, I’ll just visit the Apostrophe Protection Society<\/a> (whence the image above).<\/p>\n

(via Cronaca<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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