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, May 7, 2010

Turn your head forward

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“The word of the day is jeremiad *,” writes Kevin Earl Dayhoff, a resident of Westminster, Maryland, and a fellow Tribunista who writes f...
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Thursday, May 6, 2010

That thing I can't say about baseball

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It has come to this: I am reading the sports section again. A year ago, after my [cough] involuntary separation from The Sun , I express...
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Wednesday, May 5, 2010

More stuff

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Will “lifting luggage” become a catchphrase to match “hiking the Appalachian Trail”? Go to Language Log for the linguistics; stay for the ...
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Let the nagging resume

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It was all quips and cranks and wanton wiles, nods and becks and wreathed smiles when I returned to The Baltimore Sun ’s newsroom yesterday....
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Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Redux

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The fedora is on the coat rack, and the red Razor scooter is propped against the desk, sure indications that I am back in my old office at T...
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Monday, May 3, 2010

Writing about suicide

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More than four dozen people have leapt to their deaths since 1964 from the Cold Spring Canyon Bridge in the mountains outside Santa Barbara,...
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Sunday, May 2, 2010

Slice, dice

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If you had an English class that actually tried to teach grammar and usage, and I’m probably talking to the over-forties out there, you pr...
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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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