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.

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Deferring to the godly

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In yesterday’s post on regrettable news leads , I said that one reason not to affect bogus King James English was to avoid giving offense to...
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Don't do this again

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All right, I’m just a copy editor — and a cashiered copy editor at that — so you may wonder where I come off with attitude about how real wr...
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Monday, July 20, 2009

Things I wish I hadn't seen

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On Twitter: “What I will drink for my (first) 39th birthday: Candied bacon martini.” In addition to bacon baked with brown sugar, it includ...
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Saturday, July 18, 2009

How could this have happened?

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There’s only one explanation: Mistakes were made: Crocs Microsoft Vista Jon and Kate Plus 8 Fanny packs: Perhaps the last thing that broad-...
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Friday, July 17, 2009

Two warnings

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Be careful about what you write: Mike Memoli, one of my former students, now covering the White House for Real Clear Politics, sent out a t...
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C'mon, AP, tell us about the Olden Times

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It’s the little touches that make newspaper/wire service journalism look as if it was written exclusively for people who remember the Eisenh...
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Thursday, July 16, 2009

Is nonlife threatened?

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From The Baltimore Sun : The woman was being treated at the station for nonlife-threatening injuries and was expected to be taken to a local...
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The substitution error

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Yesterday I quoted Jan Freeman’s caution that errors involving homonyms are often merely errors of spelling , rather than the result of igno...
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009

It's just spelling

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The estimable Jan Freeman of The Boston Globe , whose column and blog I heartily endorse, keeps encountering some kind of obstacle in post...
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Further distinctions

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We’ll start out with some additions to the “Making distinctions” post and then proceed to odds and ends. I meant to add there, their, they’...
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