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Originally posted by ltl/fb
This may already have been posted, but I couldn't find it in a cursory search. From a review of a book that may have been written by Atticus and dtb:
'There are many possible reasons for the tremendous success of "Eats, Shoots & Leaves," a spritely volume that leads the reader through the valley of the shadow of comma splice; refers to the apostrophe as "our long-suffering little friend"; makes a rousing case for the semicolon's usefulness in, among other things, "calling a bunch of brawling commas to attention"; and describes Woodrow Wilson's inexplicable visceral hatred of the hyphen, which he called — spectacularly undermining his own argument — "the most un-American thing in the world."'
'Pedants may be born, or they may be made, but Ms. Truss [the author] — who prefers "stickler," if pressed — has been one for a long time.'
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/05/bo...=all&position=
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I could have sworn I posted about this prior to leaving for vacation. My husband has been scouring book stores looking for this very tome. Apparently, it's a really hot item! (Not that I'm surprised, of course.)
