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 25, 2025

Cracker Barrel culture will not nourish you

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 When my grandfather, John H. McIntyre, died in 1945, my father, Raymond McIntyre, took over the operation of his general store in Elizavill...
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Thursday, August 21, 2025

In case you missed it ...

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 With all the claims on your time, along with your wide reading, it seems possible that you have not been assiduous in following this blog. ...
Monday, August 18, 2025

Just pick up a book

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 It has been a dreary summer in Baltimore, too damn hot to venture out of doors when it was not pouring down raining. Then a week of a vile ...
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Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Tais-toi, Karoline

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 The marginally literate White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said this week that the French should be "grateful" to the U...
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Thursday, July 24, 2025

I took a vacation; there will be no slides

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Last month Kathleen and I joined her sibs, Linda and Paul Capcara, and their spouses for a trip to the Capcara homeland in the hinterlands o...
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Thursday, July 17, 2025

Septuagenarian

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Granted that I'm elderly, what are you going to call me? "Senior" and "senior  citizen" are just bland, milk-toast t...
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Saturday, July 12, 2025

These just in

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 Our job as professional copy editors is to identify and correct your lapses, sparing you public embarrassment. That does not, however, mean...
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Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Surviving in memory

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  When I traveled to Europe this summer with Kathleen and her sibs to explore the Capcara homeland in the Carpathians of northern Slovakia a...
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Thursday, June 26, 2025

Things I once taught. Please forgive me

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 Some of the things in the materials for my editing class at Loyola University Maryland over twenty-four years leave me embarrassed and repe...
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Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Advantages of life as a copy editor

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 You get to work sitting down.  You do not have to go out in all weather to attempt to draw information from the inarticulate and the hostil...
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