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No, it’s not morse code (well, it could be – I wouldn’t know). I was thinking more along the lines of punctuation. I get a real bee in my bonnet about such things and have even had friends begin letters to me in the past with “Don’t you dare correct my grammar in this!”

Lynn Truss and I aren’t quite soul-mates (she’s a little too radical even for me) but I did enjoy ‘Eats, Shoots and Leaves‘ when it came out a few years ago. The BBC have an article today based around the premise of writing thank you letters and how the wrong punctuation can have profound effects. I thought it was pretty funny and wanted to share it here.