Err
I agree with most of what you said but must take issue with "Eats, Shoots And Leaves" (and I took the liberty of including the comma that you missed...).

ESAL is one of the most pretentious, hectoring, lecturing book I've ever read. The woman needs to be taken out and beaten to death with a half brick. A much better book, in my opinion, is:

Eats, Shites & Leaves: Crap English and How to Use it, by A. Parody...

Cheers

Edit: And plurals aren't all "s" or "es". For example, viruses is wrong - it's virii.

Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Tue 6 May 2008, 12:35, Reply)