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''Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation'' (was the colon the right mark to use for a book title with a subheading?) by Lynne Truss is a book about punctuation and how often it is misused. The title comes from a joke about a panda who walks into a café, orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots into the air, producing a poorly punctuated wildlife manual as explanation. It is meant to be humorous, but informative. (Wait, [[Wanton Cruelty to
Has been compared to "''Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers'', but not about dead folks."
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▲* [[Useful Notes/Britain|Britain]]: A publisher's note in the American version notes that attempts to Americanize the book would be both futile and misguided, and Truss makes note of the differences between American and British names for certain punctuation marks on occasion. Interestingly enough, the publisher's note in question uses the American spelling for "Americanize" (whereas the British would spell it "Americanise"), but then uses the British spelling for "humour".
** They're both [[wikipedia:Oxford spelling|Oxford Spelling]].
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* [[Demoted to Extra]]: Truss laments the fate of the semicolon, and to a lesser extent, the colon.
* [[Grammar Nazi|Grammar Wank]]: The topic of the book.
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