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 15, 2010

Images from the Nopocalypse

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Amid the storm, a family dinner last Wednesday evening to celebrate my fifty-ninth birthday. (I am wearing my Baltimore Sun Blizzard of'...
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Happy birthday, Mr. President

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Today is a federal holiday, Washington’s Birthday. You may know it as President’s Day, Presidents Day, or Presidents’ Day, but that is a pop...
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Sunday, February 14, 2010

Off with their heads

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A reader was momentarily puzzled by a Baltimore Sun headline — Structure collapses dot city, region — until he realized that collapses ...
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Saturday, February 13, 2010

Snow day 9

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Yeah, I said earlier today I wasn’t going to do another of these. Sue me. A neighbor says that a city salt truck rolled down Plymouth Road...
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Snowbound still, with a side of spleen

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Get me out of here: I am discontinuing the Nopocalypse snow day journal, which has become tediously repetitive. Just say to yourself, “The ...
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Friday, February 12, 2010

Snow day 8

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Now we get the How come? What do you mean? questions. How come you say you’re still stranded at home? What do you mean, you can’t get off y...
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Thursday, February 11, 2010

Pulp Diction: 15 items or trouble

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You get ’em in the checkout at Safeway — harried mothers with kids clamoring for candy, bleary-eyed old guys pushing a cartload into the fif...
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Snow day 7

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At seven o’clock yesterday morning the snow had stopped briefly, with about three inches or so of new snow topping the old accumulation. By ...
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Sometimes they just make it up

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When some university finds a donor with more cash than sense to underwrite a Jayson Blair Chair of Journalism, qualified candidates will not...
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Getting the range

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Angela Hopp has written on Twitter to inquire about false ranges, a gimmick to which journalists are unfortunately addicted. To have a pro...
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