Making a Point: The Persnickety Story of English Punctuation

by David Crystal

Book Overview

The triumphant concluding volume in David Crystal's classic trilogy on the English language combines the first history of English punctuation with a complete guide on how to use it.

Behind every punctuation mark lies a thousand stories. The punctuation of English, marked with occasional rationality, is founded on arbitrariness and littered with oddities. For a system of a few dozen marks it generates a disproportionate degree of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250060419
• ISBN13: 9781250060419
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.5" x 8.3"