was she trying for irony?

[cellio]

Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation sounds like a great book for grammar nerds, but I am put off somewhat by the 1.5 punctuation errors in the title. (One is debatable and might be excused by context (it refers to a joke containing the phrase); the other is clearly wrong.)

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[murmur311.livejournal.com]

The missing comma isn't necessarily a British thing, either. The editors here (at my magazine) are very adamant about not having that last comma- something I discovered when I began doing the calendar listings.

the comma

[cellio]

And she's clearly referring to a joke where punctuation is central, so there's an argument for exactly duplicating that. (I would have put the phrase in quotes in that case, but perhaps publishers object to the first character in a book title being punctuation?)