Index: Eats, Shoots and Leaves
 Compiled by Pam Rider


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Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves, Profile Books Ltd, 2003.
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A

Abbreviations, 46, 188–189
About a Boy (Amazon film review), 17
Achilles, 56
Agate, James, 110–111
Alcuin of York, 76–77
Allen, Woody, 33
Amazon.com film review, 17
Amis, Kingsley, 30, 145, 176
Amis, Martin, 108, 147–148
Apostropher Royal, 46–48
Apostrophes, 186
and abbreviations, 46
Apostrophe Protection Society (APS), 5–6
Association for the Abolition of the Aberrant Apostrophe, 47
confusion, 53–54
and contractions, 42–44, 61–62
and dates, 46
and double possessive, 59–60
history of, 37–39, 64–65
its/it's, 15, 27, 43–44, 52–53
Law of Conservation of Apostrophes, 63
misplaced, 34. 50, 52, 182
missing, 2–3, 5, 13, 17–18, 26–29, 51
or commas?, 53
for plurals, 45
possessive determiners/pronouns, 40
possessives, proper names, 55–60
redundant, 1–2, 5, 26–29, 47, 49, 51
tasks of, 40–45
Archimedes, 56
Aristophanes of Byzantium
Arms and the Man, 116–117
Atlantic Monthly, 128
The Author, 186



B

Baker, Nicholson, 128, 175
Barnett, Isobel, 16
Baron, Naomi, 191
Barthelme, David, 108
"Beachcomber" column, 47, 63
"Because I could not stop for Death", 157
Beckett, Samuel, 88
Beckham, David, 60
Bembo, Pietro, 77
Berks, 30–31
Bolshevik printers, v
Books, future of, 178–182
Bovary, Emma, 104
Brackets, 160–165
Burchfield, Robert, 60
Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 156, 159


C

Capital letters, 22–23
Capote, Truman, 191
Carey, G.V., ix, 26, 27
Carey, Peter, 81
Carroll, Lewis, 200–201
Casement, Sir Roger, 99–101, 203–204
Cassell's Guide to Punctuation, 65
Cassiodorus, 72–73
Charlemagne, 76, 192
Chekhov, Anton, 116, 132–134, 183
The Cherry Orchard, 183
A Christmas Carol, 132
Churchill, Winston, 168
Colons
and compound punctuation, 129–130
history of, 78, 112
and meaning, 9
missing, 131
overview, 106–111
punctuation verse, 112–113
Coming Up for Air, 108
Commas, 129, 133
added, 31–32, 98–99
cat rhyme, 20
and compound punctuation, 129
as default punctuation, 15
and direct speech, 89–90, 152–155
fights over, 68–70, 71, 79–81
functions of, 70, 79–80
for gap filling, 89
and Greeks, 20
"hanged on", 99–101, 203–204
history of, 20, 24, 71–72, 78, 79
and interjections, 90
for joining, 87–89
in lists, 83–87
and meaning, 8, 9–11, 13. See also "hanged on" in this section
misplaced, 97, 182
missing, 81
in New Yorker, 68–70, 96
Oxford commas, 30, 84–86
in pairs, 90–96
parsing of, 99–102
punctuation verse, 112–113
repunctuation of Lucy poems (Wordsworth), 69
rules for, 82, 83–96
splice comma, 87–88
Thurber–Ross fights over, 68–70, 71, 96
and virgule, 78
yob's commas, 98, 204
Cook, Peter, 45, 166
Copy-editing, 128
Country Schools exam, 13
The Crucible, 37
Crystal, David, 191, 195–196
Cutting a Dash, 5, 13, 18


D

Daily Mail, 47
Daily Mirror, 47
Dashes, 91, 122, 123
and compound punctuation, 129–130
and meaning, 9
overview, 156–160
De Aetna (Pietro Bembo), 77
Descriptive vs. prescriptive grammar, 26–27
Destruction of Syntax/Imagination without Strings/Words-in-Freedom, 184–185
Diaries (Peter Hall), 12
Dickinson, Emily, 157, 159
Don Juan, 156
Dumas pere, Alexandre, 56


E

East, West, 128
East Lynne, 165
Eco, Umberto, 109
Edward II, 8–9
The Elements of Style, 198, 200
Electronic communication
as blame, 179, 190–192
emoticons, 192–194
linearity of, 181
Ellipses, 123, 165–167
Email, 179
Emoticons, 192–194
The English Primrose, 8
Enormity, 5
Erasmus, 161
"The Exclamation Mark", 132–134

Exclamation marks, 133–134
and meaning, 10
overview, 136–138
use of, 138
The Express, 47, 63


F

Fewer or less?, 4
The Fiction Editor, the Novel, and the Novelist, 202
Fielding, Henry, 79–80, 151
Finney, Albert, 12
The First Part of the Elementarie, 71
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 136–137
Flaubert, Gustave, 104
Following the Equator, 182
Forster, E.M., 59, 88
Fowler, H.W., 24, 79, 115, 139
Fowler's Modern English Usage, 55, 60, 84, 174
Franklin, Andrew, 188
"Free Radio" short story, 128


G

George Bernard Shaw on Language, 186. See also Shaw, George Bernard
Georgetown University, 101–102
Giving Up the Ghost, 115
Gowers, Sir Ernest, 82
Grammar checkers, 183
Grant, Hugh, 33
Great Expectations, 18
Greene, Graham, 101–102
The Guardian, 98, 146–147, 186


H

Hall, Peter, 12
Hamlet, 38
Hamlet, 12
Hartley, Cecil, 74, 112–113
Hartson, William, 47
Hear'Say, 35–36
Higgins, Professor Henry (My Fair Lady), 143
Hirschfield, Bob, 198–200
Hodges, Richard, 8
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 161–162
House style, 128
Howards End, 59
Hugo, Victor, 136
The Hunting of the Snark, 200–201
Hyphens
and names, 170–171
overview, 168–171
uses of, 171–174



I

Institutiones Divinarum et Saecularium Litterarum, 73
Internet, 179, 181
Inverted commas, 148–150, 152–154. See also Quotation marks
The Irish Times, 47
Italic typeface, 77, 78, 145–148
Its/it's, 15, 27, 43–44, 52–53


J

Jameson Raid (Transvaal 1896), 11–12
Jarvis, Martin, 32
Jesus, 56
John, Elton, 59–60, 63
Johnson, Dr Samuel, 21, 57
Jones, Philippa, 55
Jonson, Ben, 39
Joyce, James, 107–108


K

Keats, John, 55, 57
Kerouac, Jack, 191
The King's English (Fowler, 1906), 24, 79
The King's English (Kingsley Amis, 1997), 30, 145
Kundera, Milan, 31


L

Lady Chatterley's Lover, 44
Language and the Internet, 195–196
Lapsing into a Comma, 56
Lawrence, D.H., 44
Lawrence, T.E., 115–116, 117
Les Misιrables, 136
Less or fewer?, 4
The Listener, 31
Love's Labour's Lost, 37
Lucy poems (Wordsworth), 69



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M

Macbeth, 82
Malone Dies, 88
Mantel, Hilary, 115
Manutius, Aldus the Elder, 77–78, 111
Many a Slip, 16
al-Marashi, Ibrahim, 203
Marinetti, F.T., 184–185
Marlowe, Christopher, 8
Maugham, Somerset, 88
McCormack, Thomas, 202
The Medusa and the Snail, 114
Mencken, H.L., 69
The Merchant of Venice, 187
Messiter, Ian, 16
A Midsummer Night's Dream, 24–25
Miller, Arthur, 37
Mind the Stop, ix, 25–26, 27
Molloy, 88
Money, 108
Moore, Dudley, 45
Moses, 56
Mrs Dalloway, 107
Mulcaster, Richard, 71
Murdoch, Iris, 147, 148
Myers, Kevin, 47
My Fair Lady, 143


N

The Name of the Rose, 109
National Curriculum, 14
"New English" column, 97–98
New Statesman, 97–98
Nineteen Eighty-four, 190
Nixon, David, 16
"Notes on the Clarendon Press Rules for Compositors and Readers", 186
Not Only But Also, 166
Not the Nine O'Clock News, 23


O

Orwell, George, 108, 115
Over Seventy, 140
Oxford commas. See Commas
Oxford Companion to English Literature, 38
Oxford Dictionary of English, 174


P

Parentheses, 91, 160–165
Parke, Malcolm, 77
Partridge, Eric, ix, 11–12, 16, 109, 177–178
Pause and Effect, 77
Pen-pal (of author), 103–104
Periods. See Stops
The Philosopher's Pupil, 147, 148
"The Philosophy of Punctuation" essay, 124–125
Pinter, Harold, 73
Pipe Up, 28
Pip (Great Expectations), 18, 21–22
Plomley, Roy, 16 Plurals
with apostrophes, 1–2
form of, 5
without apostrophes, 3
"Poetry and Grammar", 108
Popstars, 35
Porridge, 8
Positurae, 73, 76
Prescriptive vs. descriptive grammar, 26–27
Principles of Punctuation, 74, 112–113
Private Eye, 58
Proust, Marcel, 115

Punctuation
in ascending value?, 113–114
compound, 128–129
as courtesy, 7
definitions, 7–8, 12, 27
description of, 202
experimentation, 196–197
family of, 137–138
history of, 72–74.See also Apostrophe; Colons; Comma; Question marks; Semicolons; Stops
and meaning, 8–13, 20–21
payment for, v
pedagogy of, 13–15, 16–17
reform, 190–191
and scripture, 74–76
of William Shakespeare, 12–13, 24–25
as spectres, 133–134
The Punctuation Repair Kit, 32
Punctus interrogativus, 139
Punctus versus, 111


Q

Question marks, 133
history of, 76–77, 139, 142–143, 192
and meaning, 8–9
missing, 4, 144–145
overview, 139–140, 144–145
Spanish, 142–143
use of, 141–142
Quotation marks, 91, 152–154

double/single, 152–154
history of, 150–151
and punctuation, 152–153


R

Rangwala, Glen, 202–203
The Real Inspector Hound, 166
Richards, John, 5
Richardson, Ralph, 116–117
Robertson, Joseph, 130–131
Robinson, Paul, 124–125
A Room of One's Own, 61
Room Temperature, 129 Ross, Harold, 68–70, 71, 84, 96
Rushdie, Salman, 128

S

Scoop, 124
Scriptio continua, 170
Scripture, 74–76
Sejanus, his Fall, 39 Self-styling, 58–59
Semicolons, 133
and compound punctuation, 129–130
history of, 77, 111–112
overview, 104–111
placement, 130–131
punctuation verse, 112–113
and stops, 31
use of, 114–115, 116–117, 121–127
Serial commas. See main entry Commas, Oxford commas
Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 116
Shakespeare, William, 12–13, 24–25, 38, 82
Shaw, George Bernard, 115–118, 185–187
Sherry, Norman, 101, 102
Shute, Nevil, 167
The Sixth Sense, 3
The Size of Thoughts, 128, 175
Small Time Crooks, 33
Smileys, 192–194
Solidus, 73, 197
Stein, Gertrude, 80–81, 108, 136, 144
Sterne, Laurence, 157
Stoppard, Tom, 166

Stops, 133
and address matters, 188–189
American name, 24
and colons, 78
and direct speech, 152–155
history of, 23–24, 78
and meaning, 10, 11–12, 13
misplaced, 24–25
positurae, 76
punctuation verse, 112–113
and semicolons, 31
as "spot plague", 24
Strunk, William, 198, 200


T

Tauber, Abraham, 186
Telegraph, 92
Thomas, Lewis, 114
Thurber, James, 68–70, 71, 96
Tilde, 64–65, 190–191
The Times, 12, 185
The Times Guide to English Style and Usage, 59 Todd, Loreto, 65
Tom Jones, 79–80, 151
A Town Like Alice, 167
Transvaal raid, 1896 (Jameson Raid), 11–12
Treason Act of 1351, 99–100
Treatise of Stops, Points, or Pauses, and of Notes which are used in Writing and Print, 137
Tristram Shandy, 157
True History of the Kelly Gang, 81
Truss, Lynne, 55
Twain, Mark, 182
Two Weeks Notice, 2–3, 18


U

Ullman, Tracey, 33
Updike, John, 81, 87, 121
Usage and Abusage, 11–12, 16


V

Virgula suspensiva, 73
Virgules, 78


W

Walsh, Bill, 56
wankers, 30–31
The War Against Clichι, 142
The Washington Post, 56, 198–200, 201
Waterhouse, Keith, 47
Waugh, Evelyn, 30, 124
Weldon, Fay, 108
White, E.B., 198, 200
Who Framed Roger Rabbit, 144, 146
Wilde, Oscar, 80
Wilson, Woodrow, 168
Wodehouse, P.G., 108, 140
Woolf, Virginia, 61, 107, 110
Wordsworth, William, 69


Y

The Years with Ross, 68, 69
You Have a Point There, ix, 109, 177–178


errata

based on:
British Edition
Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves, Profile Books Ltd, 2003.

Pam Rider's Information

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