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VANESSA SHARPE on ‘The Great Punctuation Debate: The educated panda vs context and content’
Lynne Truss (2003) believes that she has a sixth sense for bad punctuation. Despite her apparent lack of education, she has taken it upon herself to become an expert on it. She is almost tempted to ta… more →
Language Debates
You put your comma in, your comma out, in, out, in, out..
wrote 3 days ago: As a writers, I know I have to get punctuation correct. After all, if I can’t follow the simple rul … more →
Paltry advice for newbie bloggers.
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wrote 3 days ago: Although I’ve been blogging for a while I don’t seem to have got the point, yet. To date … more →
Get her off the pitch. . . a great read
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wrote 1 week ago: My elder brother let me borrow a book he had just finished reading – one he had thoroughly enj … more →
Hits, bits, bites and a CN Tower flashing goal light
wrote 1 month ago: Take deep breath. Check deflector shields. Proceed. Having worked amateur and professional dressing … more →
Happy First Birthday To Me!
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wrote 1 month ago: Or a least to this blog! On 21st April 2012, I posted the Hello page of Notes to the Milkman. The fi … more →
Grammar Pedanticness*
wrote 1 month ago: Friends of Lynne Truss (Image from http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/cute%20pandas) I’m not in the busine … more →
the full stop
wrote 1 month ago: …the full stop is surely the simplest mark to understand – so long as everyone continues to ha … more →
Eats, Shoots & Leaves – Lynne Truss
wrote 2 months ago: The professor of English in my college once expressed to our class how agitated she got whenever she … more →
HUGE database
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wrote 2 months ago: The creation of a database of English usage guides and usage problems: the Hyper Usage Guide of Engl … more →
Is it really all about sex? Women’s sport and media coverage
wrote 3 months ago: Some more pleaseSource: The Guardian I had a surprise last weekend. Right there in the middle of the … more →
Book Review: Eats, Shoots & Leaves
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wrote 3 months ago: A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires it into the air … more →
Eats, Shoots and Leaves
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wrote 3 months ago: Though I’ve spent over a year writing a non-fiction book -slaving away in Costa Coffee documen … more →
Topic E: English, Elements, and Eats
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wrote 3 months ago: ELEPHANTS. That’s what first came to mind when I looked for a topic to represent the letter “E” as I … more →
How Does a Semicolon Sound Like?
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wrote 3 months ago: A few weeks ago, one of my friends asked me, “Hey, Kirbz, how does a semicolon sound like?” I was, a … more →
wrote 3 months ago: I have been filled with a lot of moral outrage this week and had no place to vent it all given that … more →
Friday night is blogging night.
wrote 3 months ago: Danny Kaye (Photo credit: Wikipedia) With sincere apologies to BBC Radio 2, because that really was … more →
Get her off the pitch
wrote 3 months ago: Somehow, considering it was first published in 2010, I only just got my hands on this book. The titl … more →
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss
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wrote 3 months ago: Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss My rating: 4 of … more →
In praise of the Apostropher Royal
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wrote 3 months ago: If there isn’t an Apostropher Royal, there really should be. What a job title. (It rivals the … more →
