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, July 11, 2021

Your complaints about English usage are noted and disregarded

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 After forty years in the Wilderness, the Israelites arrived at Canaan, the land that had been promised to them,  to discover that there wer...
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Sunday, July 4, 2021

Independence Day

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 When I was a graduate student at Syracuse University, a chorister at St. Paul's Cathedral described a Memorial Day service at which a m...
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Friday, July 2, 2021

Sound familiar?

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"The sacredness of our Sabbath, of our homes, of chastity, and finally even of our right to teach our own children in our own schools f...
Tuesday, June 29, 2021

Newspapers are so prissy

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 A recent Washington Post article said that former Attorney General William Barr "likened Trump’s claims [of voter fraud] to excrement ...
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Saturday, June 26, 2021

The spell of spelling

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 Many Sunday afternoons when I was in the fifth and sixth grades at Elizaville Elementary were spent copying the week's spelling words, ...
Saturday, June 19, 2021

On the first morning of retirement ...

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I picked up the Associated Press Stylebook  from my desk and placed it on the shelf.  Penguin has been bringing out Georges Simenon's In...
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Tuesday, May 11, 2021

Family continuity represented in furniture

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 This swivel chair was in the general store my grandfather, John H. McIntyre, operated in Elizaville, Kentucky. He sat in it to keep his acc...
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Sunday, April 25, 2021

Working from home is hardly working

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For the past year a desk, table, and chair in the basement have served as my remote newsroom of The Baltimore Sun . My wife, Kathleen Capcar...
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Monday, September 14, 2020

Yokely-dokely

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In a fit of frustration I recently posted an injudicious statement, "I try to say that the people where I come from aren't all a bu...
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Sunday, August 30, 2020

Embattled whiteness

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 I occasionally sample the wackadoodle political opinions of former classmates at Fleming County High School in Kentucky.  One of them, afte...
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