English grammar and spelling errors

[MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com]

In a message dated 8/21/2006 4:22:10 AM Central Standard Time, ecartis@digitalkingdom.org writes:


> A book titled "Eats shoots and leaves" is a good, slightly funny, way  
> to polish up your grammar -- I would reccommend it to even native  
> English speakers. It gets it's name from a joke where a panda bear is  
> described in an encyclopedia as an animal that "eats shoots and  
> leaves" and then the bear "eats, shoots, and leaves" in a restuarant  
> or bar. Without the commas, the shoots and leaves are what it eats.  
> With the commas shooting and leaving are also things it does.
>
> And I think I've typed long enough...
>
> mu'o mi'e .aleks.


If we're going to be extremely picky, then...
/reccommend/recommend/
/It gets it's name/It gets its name/
/restuarant/restaurant/

"Eats shoots and leaves" is a very good book for grammar nazis.

stevo