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"Goats Cheese Salad ... tomatoes, onions, goats, cheese" A misplaced comma in the list of ingredients gives diners a totally different dish — and gives British writer Lynne Truss new ammunition in her campaign for the proper use of punctuation. The author, who was totally stunned when her book on punctuation Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation became a British and U.S. hit, has set up a web site (www.lynnetruss.com) that is collecting funny examples of wrongly used commas and apostrophes such as the above example. Truss said she decided to start a collection as people were always approaching her with examples since the book came out in 2003. "It seems I have ruined many lives by instilling in many more people the misery of always noticing these things," Truss told Reuters in a telephone interview recently. "Having been a sub-editor and a proof reader, I do proof read everything I read and often find I am reading books to check them rather than read them. Any error just sits there and hurts you."
COMPILED BY ROHINI RAMAKRISHNAN
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