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.

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Words for the times

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Bought out : Having taken a buyout , an agreement to leave voluntarily in exchange for a substantial payment, often the equivalent of one or...
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More empty ritual

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My wife, Kathleen, was once in a class with a fellow Episcopalian, a woman whose firm pronouncement on Anglican worship was “No empty ritual...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Mr. Sullivan's challenge

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David Sullivan, following the lead of Craig Lancaster, raises the issue of what copy editors’ duties should be at our remaining newspapers. ...
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Some catching up to do

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The past week has been a little hectic, what with my son’s graduation from college, my wife’s family in town for the great event, and a one-...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Hire someone to look things up

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On The Mentalist tonight, they’re looking for someone going by the name of Taliferro. They are pronouncing it Tal-i-a-fer-r0. The name is ...
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Go, Annie, go

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I recall enjoying Michael Malone’s First Lady very much and was pleased to have the chance to read his latest novel, The Four Corners of th...
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Sunday, May 17, 2009

A toast for my son

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John Paul Lucien McIntyre, Bachelor of Arts, St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland, May 17. 2009. His senior essay was on the salute t...
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Friday, May 15, 2009

The treason of the clerks

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Alice, shut your eyes.* Christopher Francese, a professor of classics at Dickinson College, has published a well-reasoned and traitorous ess...
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You get what you pay for

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Pam Robinson’s Words at Work blog has a recent post about the mixup at The Washington Times in which an article about murdered Chicago scho...
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Thursday, May 14, 2009

Who's your daddy?

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Say it three times: Correlation does not equal causation . A headline at ABC.com read, “No More ‘I dos’? Unwed births spike.” The second hal...
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