Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Eats Shoots & Leaves...

Lynne Truss, author of the surprise best selling book about punctuation pedantry, has launched a website to collect examples of erroneous grammar.

The writer of Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation said that since the book was published in 2003, people have continually approached her with examples of poor punctuation, prompting her to begin collecting them online.

'It would be lovely to hear from you - especially if you have hilarious examples of punctuation signs,' she explains on the site. 'You know the sort of thing: residents refuse to go in the bins.'
Truss recently published a second book about bad manners - Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of Everyday Life (or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door) - and her website will also collect instances of unacceptable (to some at least) behaviour.
'I'd like to hear about people behaving in public as if they're in private - e.g. shaving their legs on the train; flossing their teeth on the bus,' she said.

Truss's website is to be found at lynnetruss.com. Kudos to the first person to spot an error therein.

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