WORD NERD CONFUSED

Entomology PhD Bug Girl on one of her passions:

If you know me, you know that I’m a grammar nerd. And I love to read, and I love words.

One of my favorite books is Eats, Shoots, and Leaves. Followed closely by Ann Fadiman’s Ex Libris.

Uh, there's a superfluous comma in there: the title of the book is Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation. Bug Girl's error is ironic in view of the author's intent in choosing that particular title for a book about punctuation -- which is not the same as grammar, by the way. It's also Anne Fadiman.

That's Okay, Bug Girl claims to know a lot about DDT and she's no expert on that either.