You Don't Say

John McIntyre, whom James Wolcott called "the Dave Brubeck of the art and craft of copy editing," writes on language, editing, journalism, and random topics. Identifying his errors relieves him of the burden of omniscience. Write to jemcintyre@gmail.com, befriend at Facebook, or follow at Twitter: @johnemcintyre. His original "You Don't Say" blog at The Baltimore Sun ran from 2005 to 2021, and posts on it can sometimes be found at baltimoresun.com through Google searches.

You Don't Say

Honor the desk

All right, all right, One More Time

Listen up, people

In the Kentucky Diaspora

The arc of decline

For all the saints

Processed prose

The Copy Editor's Code

Thirteen ways of looking at an editor

When you speak, are you wearing brown shoes with a blue suit?