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Lynne Truss (born 1955) is an English writer and journalist who was born in Kingston upon Thames. Year 1955 ( MCMLV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar) England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Kingston upon Thames is the principal settlement of the Royal Borough She was educated at Tiffin Girls' School (1966-73)[1] and is a graduate of University College London, where she read English. The Tiffin Girls' School is an all girls Grammar school located in Kingston upon Thames, south-west London, England. University College London ( UCL) is a multi-faculty university institution based in the United Kingdom and a constituent college of the University of London The term English literature refers to Literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by Writers not necessarily from She is best known for her commercially successful book on punctuation, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation. Eats Shoots & Leaves The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation is a Non-fiction book written by Lynne Truss, the former host of the BBC 's

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Truss was Literary Editor of the The Listener (1986-90) and briefly the Independent on Sunday before joining The Times in 1991, where first she spent six years writing television criticism, illustrated by John Minnion, followed by four years as a sports columnist; during this tenure, her sports work was said to inspire the hapless "Sally Jockstrap" in Private Eye. See also New Zealand Listener and Listener (musician and The Listener (TV series The Listener was a weekly The Independent is a British compact Newspaper published by Tony O'Reilly 's Independent News & Media. The Times is a daily national Newspaper published in the United Kingdom since 1785 when it was known as The Daily Universal Register. John Minnion is an English Illustrator. His distinctive black and white drawings have appeared in publications such as the Financial Times, Private Eye is a fortnightly British satirical Magazine, edited by Ian Hislop. She won Columnist of the Year for her work for Women's Journal. She now reviews books for the Sunday Times. The Sunday Times is a Sunday Broadsheet Newspaper distributed in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. Her book Eats, Shoots & Leaves (November 2003), about the misuse of punctuation, became a bestseller in both Britain and the United States. Eats Shoots & Leaves The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation is a Non-fiction book written by Lynne Truss, the former host of the BBC 's The book's declaration for a "Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation" is considered a rallying call for punctuation "sticklers" of the world. In 2005 she released a book on manners titled Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door. In Sociology, manners are the unenforced standards of conduct which show the actor to be Cultured Polite, and refined

She is the author of three novels and numerous radio comedy dramas, including the Radio 4 comedy series Acropolis Now, and is a familiar voice on BBC Radio 4. Acropolis Now is a BBC Radio Sitcom set in Ancient Greece, written by the author of Eats Shoots & Leaves, Lynne Truss Truss also hosted Cutting a Dash, a popular BBC Radio 4 series about punctuation and regularly delivered humorous monologues on the Fourth Column series. Her 2002/5 radio monologues for actors A Certain Age were collected for publication as a book in 2007. Also in 2007 Radio 4 broadcast her comic drama series Inspector Steine about an incompetent police officer in 1950s Brighton. The 1950s Decade refers to the years of 1950 to 1959 inclusive Brighton ( is a town on the south coast of England and with its neighbour Hove, forms the city of Brighton and Hove.

Cutting a Dash

Cutting a Dash was a popular BBC Radio 4 series about punctuation, hosted by Lynne Truss. It was the direct inspiration for Truss' bestselling book Eats, Shoots & Leaves. Eats Shoots & Leaves The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation is a Non-fiction book written by Lynne Truss, the former host of the BBC 's [2]

It was a series of five, fifteen-minute programmes, first broadcast in 2002:

  1. The Endangered Apostrophe: Is a misplaced apostrophe a catastrophe?
  2. Changing Gear, the Comma: "A little boomerang", the Ancient Greeks, legalese and the National Curriculum come under scrutiny.
  3. And Another Thing: Colons and Semicolons. George Bernard Shaw, Sir Compton Mackenzie and Fay Weldon debate the "limb" of punctuation.
  4. Listen to Me When I'm Writing: Jane Austen, inverted commas, and a man haunted by an exclamation mark.
  5. Punctuating the Future: Are the internet and e-mail influencing how we punctuate?

The series was re-broadcast on BBC 7, 8th to 12th January, 2007.

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References

  1. ^ "The Tiffin Girls' School Prize Giving Thursday 21st September 2006"
  2. ^ Truss, Lynne (2003). Going Loco is a Farcical Comic novel by the author Lynn Truss Eats Shoots & Leaves The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation is a Non-fiction book written by Lynne Truss, the former host of the BBC 's Eats, Shoots & Leaves. Profile Books. ISBN 1 86197 612 7.  

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