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, March 5, 2010

Counting heads

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This is a year for midterm elections, some primaries having already been conducted, so you can be confident of being battered with pollin...
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Pulp Diction: The complete serial

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1. 15 items or trouble You get ’em in the checkout at Safeway — harried mothers with kids clamoring for candy, bleary-eyed old guys pus...
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Thursday, March 4, 2010

Pulp Diction 4: The dark tower

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(Previously: 15 items or trouble , The last copy editor , The wider web ) The Amtrak from Baltimore to New York was only ninety minutes ...
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Wrapped in the mantle of shame

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More in sorrow ... The current issue of The New Yorker has an article on Mayor Richard M. Daley of Chicago, in which one passage describe...
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Your role in National Grammar Day

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Admittedly, National Grammar Day was cooked up by Martha Brockenbrough as a stunt. She wanted to publicize her book. This year, Mignon Fogar...
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Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Community organized

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Last week I heard an apologist for business interests refer to people concerned about global warming as “the alarmist community.” Then on S...
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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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