Title: Will Be Clogging the Used Book Stalls in a Matter of Weeks.
Product review: Yes, the title is incorrectly punctuated. I wouldn't make a big deal of it except for the fact that this is precisely the sort of thing this book makes a big deal of, page after page.This might have made a nice little article in something like _Harper's_ or the British equivalent, but a book-length treatment of this subject is a bit tiresome.Astonishingly, Truss seems to have no idea where the possessive " 's " comes from, citing only the fallacious "his" theory and then dropping the subject altogether. The " 's " comes from the vanished genitive case, Toots.Those who defend the book on the grounds that the humor is so quintessentially British that it defies American grasp are talking nonsense. It's not even the sort of pedantic, nerdy humor that would be funny only to librarians who can't get laid, since I AM such a librarian.I laughed much more at Alex Ainley's review below (q.v. sub) than anything in this book.
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