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, March 1, 2010

Tune in tomorrow

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As part of the preliminaries to National Grammar Day on Thursday, I recorded an interview this morning that is to be broadcast tomorrow on ...

Me, myself, and I

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A reader new to this blog has been puzzled by the photo captions in Gore Vidal’s Snapshots in History’s Glare : “Howard and I at Edgewater i...
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Sunday, February 28, 2010

Directing your attention elsewhere

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If you found snowpocalypse , smowmageddon , and other neologisms more tiresome even than the recent winter storms, take heart from Bryan Gar...
Friday, February 26, 2010

What you meant to say

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Renee Petrina, who professes journalism at Ball State, is “developing a workshop on euphemisms for communications students (not just journal...
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Thursday, February 25, 2010

Pulp Diction 3: The wider web

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(Previously: 15 items or trouble ; The last copy editor ) “What happened to this place?” I whirled around. “Fogarty! I told you to stay o...
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

The liar, the cheat, and the thief

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I have been asked to make available a previous post on detecting plagiarism and fabrication that is no longer available at Baltimoresun.com:...
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How I get myself in trouble

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I was simply taking a break from an editing project to check Facebook when I saw a post from one of my Facebook friends/acquaintances about ...
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Happy days will be here again

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In the second act of Annie , after hearing Little Orphan Annie sing “Tomorrow” to his Cabinet, Franklin Roosevelt says that he has decided t...
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Fulsome is as fulsome does

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Commenting on this morning’s post, “Be careful out there,” Marisa Birns wrote: I remember when fulsome was not the best word to use wit...
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Be careful out there

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People’s insecurity about the use of their own language is deep-seated and sad, and it leaves them defensive. (For God’s sake, never tell...
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