Lynne Truss - Eats, Shoots and Leaves

fifthestate.co.uk First published in Great Britain by Profile Books Ltd in 2003. Published in paperback in 2005 and reissued in 2007 Copyright © Miraculous Panda Ltd, 2003, 2005, 2007 Lynne Truss asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978-0-00-732906-9 All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books. Ebook Edition © MARCH 2011 ISBN: 9780007431595 Version: 2018-02-05

Dedication Dedication Dedication Dear Reader 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 Bibliography Acknowledgements About the Author By the same author Reviews About the Publisher To the memory of the striking Bolshevik printers of St Petersburg who, in 1905, demanded to be paid the same rate for punctuation marks as for letters, and thereby directly precipitated the first Russian Revolution

Dear Reader

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

Bibliography

Acknowledgements

About the Author

By the same author

Reviews

About the Publisher

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