![]() ![]() That man was Aldus Manutius the Elder (1450-1515) and I will happily admit I hadn't heard of him until about a year ago, but am now absolutely kicking myself that I never volunteered to have his babies." Eats, Shoots & Leaves (The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation) by Lynne Truss "That imaginative chap Charlemagne (forward-looking Holy Roman Emperor) stirred things up in the 9th century when Alcuin of York came up with a system of positurae at the ends of sentences (including one of the earliest question marks), but to be honest western systems of punctuation were damned unsatisfactory for the next five hundred years until one man-one fabulous Venetian printer-finally wrestled with the issue and pinned it to the mat. Retrieved from Įats, Shoots and Leaves: the Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation APA style: Eats, Shoots and Leaves: the Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation.Eats, Shoots and Leaves: the Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation." Retrieved from ![]() MLA style: "Eats, Shoots and Leaves: the Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation." The Free Library. ![]()
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