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.

Saturday, September 5, 2009

A qualified endorsement of the press

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George Chandler-Powell is a character, a surgeon, in P.D. James’s most recent novel, The Private Patient . At one point Mr. Chandler-Powell ...
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Friday, September 4, 2009

No easy pun here about The Sun setting

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Too preoccupied with various editing projects to blog much this week, I still got around to reading the Baltimore Magazine article by Evan S...
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Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Say 'Arrrrrrrr'

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With International Talk Like a Pirate Day (September 19) just a couple of weeks off, here is an important reminder: A pirate’s rhotic growl ...
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Peevologist psychology

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The peevologist, a self-proclaimed expert on language, can be readily identified by certain key characteristics: a belief, stated or implici...
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Monday, August 31, 2009

Farewell to Professor Hatchett

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I only learned today of the death earlier this month of Marion Hatchett . Professor Hatchett was a formidable figure at the school of theolo...
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I am not making this up, you know

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Item: Wikipedia, which discovered last week that there might be some value in editing articles before publication, is now going to indicate...
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Saturday, August 29, 2009

You mean you can check things for accuracy?

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Expecting me to rise to the bait, a number of readers have sent me links to announcements that Wikipedia is going to be engaging editors to ...
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Friday, August 28, 2009

What's the story?

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Two articles in this morning’s Baltimore Sun reach for the same cliche with reference to the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy: BOSTON — In an ext...
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Now we have a term for it

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You’ve heard about the Cupertino .* You have seen the eggcorn .** You know about the snowclone .*** Now — flourish by trumpets and hautboys ...
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Musée des Peevologies

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Though I do not aspire to be its curator, a collection of the historical representations of peevology* should be of some use to the student ...
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