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, August 2, 2010

August update

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Unfortunately, the Parkside is no more. Kathleen and I happened to eat there the night before it shut down and enjoyed a dish of J.P.'s ...
Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Shameless filial promotion

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It would not be appropriate for me to shill for a business on my blog at Baltimoresun.com , though you are certainly encouraged to go there ...
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Monday, June 21, 2010

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As Baltimoresun.com inaugurates a Joke of the Week feature, I throw out the first joke: http://www.baltimoresun.com/videobeta/?watchId=2e4...
Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Setting up shop at a new location

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What can I say? They wanted me back. When I agreed after the [cough] Interval [cough] to return to The Baltimore Sun , the editors were ...
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Monday, May 10, 2010

You can't call the trucks back

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In what he described as a pre-emptive gesture, Steve Gould of The Sun ’s sports desk sent out word on Facebook and Twitter earlier today: “ ...
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Saturday, May 8, 2010

Just call it a tussle

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Now that I am hip-deep in newspaper journalism again, with the level rising, I am reminded of the journalistic fondness for altercation , wh...
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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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