"Lynne Truss" is an English writer, journalist and professional pedant best known for her popular book Eats, Shoots & Leaves/Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation. In August 2014, Truss was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian opposing Scottish independence in the run-up to September's Scottish independence referendum, 2014/referendum on that issue.

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The utter bloody rudeness of the world today.

Talk to the Hand.

But, come on. Just because it's obvious doesn't mean it's not true.

[Inside her stucco town house, the curtains were drawn and stillness prevailed.] That is why it is very painful to be interviewed or profiled, ... Because you think when you read the piece, Oh, that is how I come across, as someone who is too interested in stationery, or as someone who doesn't know how to spend money.