Truss, a longtime writer and editor, is sure that trying to halt the decline would be hopeless, but she wants her new book, ‘‘Eats, Shoots & Leaves'' to at least serve as a warm and funny eulogy to a ...

Lynne Truss fears the English language could be in its death throes. Proper, written English, that is -- the kind with correctly placed apostrophes, elegantly positioned semicolons, commas in all the ...