![]() Impassioned, informative, and always amusing, this is an essential listen for anyone who loves language. You might want to eat a huge hot dog, but a huge, hot dog would run away pretty quickly if you tried to take a bite out of him. This illustrated version for children shows how the humble comma can change the meaning of a sentence completely. ![]() Looking into the future, she wonders if ‘emoticons’ will put colons, commas, and apostrophes on the endangered species list. 'Eats, Shoots & Leaves' has sold over 3 million copies world-wide. Talking to writers and experts like Fay Weldon and David Crystal, she discovers the origins of the comma in Greek drama and Gregorian chant, considers the case for ‘semi colonic irrigation’ and asks how a writer’s choice of punctuation expresses his tone of voice. She accompanies the founder of the Apostrophe Protection Society through Berwick Street Market on a hunt for the ‘greengrocer’s apostrophe’, enters the classroom to hear how children learn punctuation, and finds out whether anyone punctuates text messages. This is the radio series that started it all: five programmes in which Lynne Truss explores changing fashions in punctuation. ![]() Its runaway success brought millions of grammar geeks out of the closet and made it cool to care about punctuation. The BBC Radio 4 series that inspired the best-selling book Eats, Shoots & Leaves. ![]()
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