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.

Monday, September 14, 2009

Treason!

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Last week the editor of the Maryland Gazette published a justification for using the construction may have laid down in the road on purpose ...
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Saturday, September 12, 2009

H.L.M.

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On this date in 1880, Henry Louis Mencken was born. By the time of the stroke in 1948 that robbed him of the ability to read and write, he h...
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Friday, September 11, 2009

A catholic taste

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The mark of a mature taste is the ability to appreciate excellence in different forms — Carolina barbecue as well as steak au poivre . Thus,...
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Congress has a lot to learn

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There was a brief brouhaha this week after the gentleman from South Carolina blurted, “You lie!” during the president’s address to Congress,...
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You lie, you lay, you have lain

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Thanks to a dispatch from a reader of this blog, I learned that a reader of the Maryland Gazette complained about the grammar of the openin...
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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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