Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The surprise British best-seller by Lynne Truss is, quite simply, the punctuation pedant’s delight. It (humorously) covers such topics as the history of the Apostropher Royal; the misuse of the comma (particularly in the titular joke); the wonders of the semicolon, which was invented by Aldus Manutius the Elder; and, of course, the misplaced comma that was left in the British government’s “dodgy dossier” on Iraq.
Emerald City did a nice review of the book as well; if you buy it, use their referral link, perhaps.
(The US edition is reported to be due in April.)
