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.

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Not a gut course

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In about half an hour I will walk into a classroom at Loyola and tell a group of students what they are in for in CM 361 Copy Editing. For t...
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Sunday, September 2, 2012

And still counting

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On this date on 1986 I arrived at Calvert Street to start work on the copy desk at The Baltimore Sun . That makes it, acco...
Saturday, September 1, 2012

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Five things you can do to improve Facebook 1. Those gorgeous pictures of food porn in magazines? Trick lighting and varnish. That lovely ...
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Friday, August 31, 2012

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Pipe down  Wednesday was the sixtieth anniversary of the premiere of John Cage's 4'33" , a work in which the performer is ins...
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Thursday, August 30, 2012

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Lobbying the dictionary Note to readers: There’s a bug in my blogging software at The Sun (surprise!), so I will be posting here ...
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Sunday, May 27, 2012

Promises to keep

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A week ago at Memorial Episcopal Church there was a baptism, in the course of which the entire congregation reaffirmed their Baptismal Coven...
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Monday, March 26, 2012

A tree grows in Hamilton

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In 2008, at our request, the city planted a redbud tree in the tree lawn in front of our house. It was a little taller than I was. The win...
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Monday, March 19, 2012

Against introspection

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Memorial Episcopal Church publishes a series of Lenten meditations by members of the parish. I was invited to contribute this year but, dist...
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Thursday, March 1, 2012

An explanation for Mr. Morrow

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Both Clark Elder Morrow and Robert Hartwell Fiske have objected to my comments on Mr. Morrow’s writing about the Oxford English Dictiona...
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Thursday, February 2, 2012

New Sun blog site

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The version of  You Don’t Say  that operates at baltimoresun.com has relocated to a new Web address and new software. You will be able to ...
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