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, February 12, 2019

Breaking into newspapering

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In the spring of 1968, when I was a junior in high school. Lowell Denton, publisher of the weekly Flemingsburg Gazette in Fleming County, Ke...
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Monday, January 21, 2019

I'll stand with government workers

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My mother, Marian Early McIntyre, was the postmaster in Elizaville, Kentucky for twenty-four years, much of that time as a federal employee ...
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Saturday, December 1, 2018

We pause now for a brief commercial announcement

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As you consider your holiday gifting (yes, gift  is a verb and has been for centuries; get over it), you might consider a small book of seve...
Thursday, September 27, 2018

Making them stand

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Newsweek has published an article about India Landry, an 18-year-old student who was expelled  from Windfern High School outside Houston la...
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Thursday, August 9, 2018

White people should take a calming breath, or go for a walk

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Of course, paying any attention at all to Laura Ingraham cuts into our limited time on this side of the turf, but people are posting some pa...
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Wednesday, June 20, 2018

I know where I come from

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My parents, Raymond and Marian Early McIntyre, spent their entire lives in Fleming County, Kentucky, in Appalachia. They graduated from hi...
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Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Chicago-bound

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A week from today I will be flying to Chicago for the national conference of ACES the Society for Editing (formerly the American Copy Editor...
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Sunday, March 18, 2018

Stand with the teachers

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West Virginia's 20,000 public school teachers went on a nine-day strike over their pay and faced down the state legislature. Good for th...
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Thursday, February 15, 2018

In a technologically advanced workplace

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This morning, in my office at Loyola University Maryland, I attempted to print from my desktop computer a handout for my editing class. Th...
Saturday, December 30, 2017

No home to come home to

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This was the year that my sister sold the family farm. My great-great-grandfather, John Early, bought the property outside Elizaville, ...
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