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Scottie mentions her nonexistent husband in a company meeting
and on the whole seemed to be another species entirely
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation PB_Gift_Guide Small Mercies is a superbThe spirited and scholarly #1 New York Times bestseller combines boisterous history with grammar how tos to show how important punctuation is in our worldperiod. In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Lynne Truss, gravely concerned about our current grammatical state, boldly defends proper punctuation. She proclaims, in her delightfully urbane, witty, and very English way, that it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them as the