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, July 9, 2009

A new Garner

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Thank you, @mbrockenbrough, for word that the new edition of Garner’s Modern American Usage is forthcoming. The third edition, due out this ...
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Making distinctions

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Part of the copy editor’s responsibility in achieving clarity and precision of prose is to honor nuances of meaning. The trick is to know wh...
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Wednesday, July 8, 2009

The AP Stylebook: Repository of extinct rules

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A correspondent with a stronger stomach than mine follows the AP Stylebook’s “Ask the Editor” feature, where she found this exchange: Q. I...
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What comes after plagiarism

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The Colorado Springs Gazette has dismissed a student intern, Hailey MacArthur, after determining that she plagiarized material from The New ...
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Watching our language

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If you have not heard Geoffrey Nunberg’s commentaries on language at NPR’s Fresh Air or read his op-ed essays in various newspapers, you can...
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Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Other voices

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Item: If yesterday’s post about the increase in errors attendant on the reduction of copy desk staffs interested you, then you should certa...
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Monday, July 6, 2009

Might be imagined by some people to be true

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Peter Bronson, a writer at one of my former employers, The Cincinnati Enquirer , has published on his blog, Bronson Is Always Right , a phot...
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We told you so

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Andrew Alexander, ombudsman at The Washington Post , conceded ruefully in a column over the weekend that reduction of the number of copy ed...
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They're so ignorant they bore me to death

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One of my correspondents is irked by the word ignorant as it is used in Baltimore: People in Baltimore, and perhaps elsewhere, have a habit...
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Sunday, July 5, 2009

The chattering classes

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A holiday weekend bonus post: People need to shut up. Last night Kathleen and I went to Oregon Ridge Park for the Baltimore Symphony Orchest...
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