With such observations as "people truly do not know their apostrophe from their elbow," Lynne Truss has made "the history of punctuation a subject at once urgent, sexy, and hilarious" (John Walsh,The Independent).
Author: Universe Publishing Staff
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ISBN: 9780789316103
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Page: 370
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Featuring a plethora of examples that show how to get the worst out of the world's most commonly spoken language, Eats, Shites and Leaves is a wittily informative insight into how the English language can be used and abused in the twenty ...
Author: A. Parody
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN: 1782432892
Category: Humor
Page: 345
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S: eats(alex,shoots) < eats(alex,leaves n) NP : λP.P(alex) VP : λx.eats(x,shoots) <
eats(x,leaves n) Alex Vt : λP.λx.P(λy.eats(x, y)) NP : λP.P(shoots) < P(leavesn)
eats NP : λP.P(shoots) CC : λP.λQ.λx.P(x) < Q(x) NP : λP.P(leavesn) shoots and ...
Author: Jacob Eisenstein
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262042843
Category: Computers
Page: 536
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Combining a chronological survey of key influences in the area of usage with discussion of such themes as punctuation, spelling, and pronunciation, tells the story of the battles surrounding English usage.
Author: David Crystal
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019920764X
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 239
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By the bestselling author of Eats, Shoots & Leaves and Cat Out of Hell, a nail-biting tale of good versus evil involving one man, his dog and a group of 18th-century amateur scientific pioneers who just happen to be cats.
Author: Lynne Truss
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473538769
Category: Fiction
Page: 304
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Without grammatical expression and grammatical accuracy, the meaning of
words can change as the following two sentences demonstrate: The panda eats,
shoots and leaves (he has his dinner, kills another panda with his shotgun and ...
Author: Emily Finch
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198831277
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Page: 520
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