Title: Get out your red pen.
Product review: Lynne Truss spends an interminable amount of the reader's time grousing about misplaced apostrophes, but scattered throughout her book are misplaced quote marks, one of my pet peeves. I had to tie my hand behind my back to keep from transposing them with a pencil. Why didn't the publisher also produce a book for American readers? I understand the book has sold well, so it couldn't have been for monetary reasons.Maybe it's sort of a snobby thing like Alex Trebek's penchant for misplaced quote marks in the Jeopardy answers. People used to write to him about it; he made it very clear to his audience that he wasn't changing them. Apparently, people have given up because he doesn't mention it anymore.For a superb critique of this book, read the one that appeared in the New Yorker. I did, and I learned more about punctuation than Lynne Truss knows.
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