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The princess of punctuation is alleged to have committed a colon atrocity in Eats, Shoots & Leaves.

The book also omits the serial comma, as in "eats, shoots and leaves," which is acceptable in the United States only in newspapers and commercial magazines.

As the journalist Lynne Truss notes in "Eats, Shoots & Leaves," her forcedly jovial punctuation primer, "the world cares nothing for the little shocks endured by the sensitive stickler".

The first punctuation mistake in "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation" (Gotham; $17.50), by Lynne Truss, a British writer, appears in the dedication, where a nonrestrictive clause is not preceded by a comma.

As Truss herself notes, some conventions of British usage employed in "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" are taboo in the United States — for example, the placement of commas and periods outside quotation marks, "like this".

As Truss herself notes, some conventions of British usage employed in "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" are taboo in the United States for example, the placement of commas and periods outside quotation marks, "like this".

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& people have different habits in eating.

IN eating, as in life, style counts.

I also believe in eating locally.

He believed in eating locally and seasonally.

Everyone is interested in eating and drinking".

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