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, January 16, 2010

You can always blame the customer

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Andrew Alexander, the ombudsman for The Washington Post , once more takes on the thankless task of explaining to readers why the number of ...
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Friday, January 15, 2010

Blast from the past

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It is probably not too soon to steel yourself for National Grammar Day on March 4. By way of preparation, and to respond to readers disappoi...
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Thursday, January 14, 2010

Must be important; it's on Facebook

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One of my readers, a former University of Maryland at Baltimore County student, noticed a couple of articles at Baltimoresun.com that cited ...
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010

RAWSEX

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Made you look. When I first worked at The Cincinnati Enquirer in 1980, the newspaper used the Hendrix publishing system, on which the slug...
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010

You call that a great headline?

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On Twitter, I came across a tweet from @howardowens: “A copy editor could work a lifetime and never get a chance to write such a great headl...
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Monday, January 11, 2010

Bungling at the top

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Tempting as it is to associate imbecility mainly with the publishing executives who have hollowed out America’s newspapers, there is plenty ...
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Monday, bloody Monday

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Not an auspicious start to the week: woke at 3:00 a.m. yesterday, feverish, then chilled, congested, with a sore throat. Had to back out, sh...
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Saturday, January 9, 2010

I tweet, you tweet, we all tweet

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Because the American Dialect Society is meeting in Baltimore this week, along with the Linguistics Society of America, I drove down to the H...
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Friday, January 8, 2010

Pick up after yourself

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Responding to yesterday’s “Turn out the lights” post, Doug Fisher of Common Sense Journalism commented thus: Most interesting from the S...
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Thursday, January 7, 2010

Turn out the lights

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When a notable actor expires, they dim the lights on Broadway in a brief tribute. It was confirmed yesterday that Media General will conso...
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