Virgie came to visit one day last week and left me a book she thought I might enjoy. It's called Eats, Shoots & Leaves. It's a book about punctuation by an English author, Lynne Truss, who is a stickler for proper (correct) punctuation. Imagine! An entire book about punctuation.
Apparently, there is an actual group called the Apostophe Protection Society. I'm assuming that group is to be found in England...not in the U.S., where we can't be bothered to worry much about punctuation. I, for one, pretty much make up the rules as I go along.
But, Ms. Truss is humorous and I do like British humor, so I thought I would give the book a go.
I skipped the acknowledgements, but read the Foreward by Frank Court, the Publisher's Note (yes, I had to look in the book to see where to put the apostrophe), and the Preface by the author. Before I had completed 4 pages of the actual book, I had already disagreed with her on one example and then checked to see how many pages were in the book. 204...not including the Bibliography.
I can't imagine that my interest will be sustained, but I'll give it my best effort. I would truly like to know the rules so that I can break them on purpose and not just out of ignorance.
And, as I said, I really do enjoy British tongue-in-cheek humor.
