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.

Saturday, May 1, 2010

Derby Day

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If I had a horse running today in the Kentucky Derby, I’d name it Hapax Legomenon and spend the race chuckling at the announcer’s pronunciat...
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Friday, April 30, 2010

Q and A

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Amid the cascade of congratulations about my return to The Baltimore Sun next week as Night Content Production Manager, there have been ...
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Thursday, April 29, 2010

New frontiers in peevology

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The New York Times reported yesterday on the emergence of a vigilante movement on Twitter : A small but vocal subculture has emerged on Tw...
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Leave English out of it

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Tim James, a candidate for governor in Alabama, wants all state forms to be available in English only. He says in a campaign ad: “ This i...
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Happy days are here again

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Having been let go at The Baltimore Sun last April, as I have repeatedly, and no doubt tiresomely, reminded you, I spent eleven months l...
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Monday, April 26, 2010

Attention must be paid?

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Perhaps you, like me, have been reading all the head-wagging in editorial and op-ed circles about the turrible, turrible polarization aff...
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Sunday, April 25, 2010

Get a grip

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I was amused, after the Congress enacted the president’s legislation to reform health care, by the overreaction, the screaming that our libe...
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Saturday, April 24, 2010

Tagged as a descriptivist

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If you missed yesterday’s post, “For whom, the bell tolls,” or read it yesterday, you have missed a recent comment by a reader signing i...
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Friday, April 23, 2010

For whom, the bell tolls

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Yesterday’s “Rules are rules” post quoted Professor Geoffrey Pullum on actual, rather than imagined, rules about the comma, but his post a...
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Thursday, April 22, 2010

Rules are rules

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Over at Language Log , Professor Geoffrey Pullum gives the lie to the canard that descriptivists think that there are no rules in English, p...
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