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, February 1, 2010

One more reason to consult a copy editor

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A Planet Fitness franchisee in Maryland is changing the name of its clubs, and it is evident that no copy editor was involved in the decisio...
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In Paradise

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Remember the Millerites? The Rev. William Miller, a Baptist divine, calculated from prophecies in the Book of Daniel that the world would ...
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Sunday, January 31, 2010

Five sentences

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A paragraph, students are being taught, should have five sentences. The first sentence, the topic sentence, announces the subject of the par...
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Saturday, January 30, 2010

The uses of subliteracy

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I do carry on some about the defects of people’s education in writing. But I have support, as in this week’s New Yorker profile of Secretar...
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Saturday ruminations

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Saturday, particularly a Saturday with snow starting to fall, offers a chance to catch up with miscellaneous items that accumulated over the...
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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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