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.

Sunday, April 2, 2017

On my mother's 100th birthday

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My mother, Marian Early McIntyre, was born one hundred years ago today. She came into the world as the United States was about to enter the...
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Monday, January 16, 2017

Overheard at the bar

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I was having a quiet ale the other day when three young women at the bar were conducting an animated, and quite vocal, conversation.  Thei...
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Friday, December 30, 2016

Dark imaginings on the right

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Curious attitudes keep surfacing on the right. Last week Carl Paladino got himself into hot water by making remarks to an online public...
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Friday, December 9, 2016

The late Mr. Saunders

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We said goodbye to Saunders this morning. A trip to the veterinarian on Wednesday yielded this information: He was suffering from a fev...
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Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Time goes by

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It was on October 23-25, 1997, that the American Copy Editors Society conducted its first national conference, at the University of North Ca...
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Saturday, October 1, 2016

My bully is dead

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Though I allowed my subscription to the Flemingsburg Gazette , the paper I worked for in high school and college, to lapse, I still occasion...
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Friday, September 30, 2016

As you make your plans for this weekend ...

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please recall that The Old Editor plans to be at Ryan's Daughter in Belvedere Square around five o'clock Sunday afternoon for a pint...
Sunday, September 25, 2016

The Old Editor's thirst

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It appears that I will be dangerously at loose ends a week from today, Sunday, October 2. If any of my readers fancy a pint with The Old Edi...
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Saturday, August 13, 2016

Make sure your bright-eyed scholar is properly outfitted

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With the imminent start of the school year, you have been supplying your young charges with all the kit they will need: a full spectrum of g...
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Sunday, August 7, 2016

Advice for an election year

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From The Vanity of Dogmatizing  (1661) by the Rev. Joseph Glanvill: "They that have never peep't beyond the common belief in which ...
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