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.

Friday, January 29, 2010

Steam escaping under pressure

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Some of the people who commented on this week’s posts “Keeping up with the Joneses” and “English, the slut language” acted as if they were...
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Grammarpalooza

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As you make your own plans to celebrate National Grammar Day on March 4, this account from the archives, published the day after the first N...
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Thursday, January 28, 2010

English, the slut language

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Yesterday’s post on plurals and possessives stirred up some comments worth addressing. This one, from The Ridger: You know you can'...
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Coming attractions

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Where to Turn: Resources for Editors I will be conducting another audio conference for McMurry, publisher of Copyediting , on Thursday, Fe...
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Keeping up with the Joneses

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Yes, Joneses . That’s how it’s done. Today we’re going to have a little refresher tutorial on plurals and possessives. If you’ve already got...
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Mumpsimus redux

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Mumpsimus is an obstinate determination to hold on to a belief or practice even after it has been demonstrated to be faulty ⎯ a mulish resi...
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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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