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.)

Comments

Re: ampersand?

[goljerp]

As for one versus two spaces between sentences

You actually make a very good point to continue with two spaces after period. The reason why this is "wrong" is that the rule was made for fixed-width typewriters. As The Mac is not a Typewriter points out, the rule is actually "two spaces for monospaced fonts (like a Typewriter), one space for proportional fonts". But with things like the web, you're not really specifying fonts, so you might as well put in two spaces and then let the web browser/whatever fix it for you. (Note: I usually do two spaces out of habit, even though I then go back and fix 'em when it matters.)