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, January 25, 2010

The battle rejoined

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I understand that there was some kind of football extravaganza over the weekend, which may have distracted some of you from the back-and-for...
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Saturday, January 23, 2010

We'll always have Paris

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As regular readers know, one of the enduring pleasures of my twilight years is slapping around the Associated Press Stylebook at any opportu...
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Friday, January 22, 2010

Out of the archives, endlessly mocking

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I feel a little embarrassed to be repurposing material from past posts, but a crowd of new readers has arrived this week, some of them drawn...
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Thursday, January 21, 2010

Someone had blunder'd

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One night some years ago, as I was reviewing the stories for the front page of The Sun , I saw on edition deadline that the deck head — the ...
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

With malice toward 'none'

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Not to carp and cavil and kvetch, but I have been telling you repeatedly that none is a Janus pronoun. It swings both ways. It is either sin...
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010

O ye of little faith

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Last week The Baltimore Sun ran an article by Tracy Wilkinson of Tribune Newspapers about relief efforts in Haiti that contained this quest...
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Monday, January 18, 2010

The bliss of ignorance

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Writing about Sarah Palin in The New York Review of Books , Jonathan Raban characterized Going Rogue as a “paean to virtuous ignorance,” a ...
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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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