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.

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Snow day 5

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Now it begins to get interesting. After two days of sunshine, the sky has clouded over, and Baltimore braces for the impending storm, whic...
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Monday, February 8, 2010

Snow day 4

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The situation: Many of the neighbors were out in the sunlight yesterday afternoon, beginning to dig out their cars and clear sidewalks. But...
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Sunday, February 7, 2010

Snow day 3

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Reports are trickling in of the existence of readers who profess to enjoy this Snowpocalypse journal and want more of it. Perhaps they are h...
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Saturday, February 6, 2010

Snow day 2

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Woke in the middle of the night to the sound of thunder amid the snowfall. No trace at 7.a.m. of the three shovelings from the night before....
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Friday, February 5, 2010

Snow day

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We have coffee and bourbon. The snow shovels are propped by the door, and J.P. is poised to spell me with them. I have picked up Alice and h...
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Thursday, February 4, 2010

No man's land

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Alexandra D’Arcy, a sociolinguist at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, takes a hearty swipe at prescriptivists ⎯ her grandmoth...
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Wednesday, February 3, 2010

First things first

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When I spoke last month to the McMurry audio conference on “Things Your English Teacher Didn’t Tell You,” I mentioned a hierarchy of editing...
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The little things that count

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My eminent colleague David Sullivan of the Philadelphia Inquirer writes on his blog, That’s the Press, Baby , that as the “reader-feedback ...
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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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