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A few days

A great pity to be taking time off the week after this blog recorded its greatest number of hits to date, but I have vacation coming and intend to use it. So don’t think that I’ve gone missing. Amuse yourselves with the bloggers listed on the “Smart people” post from June 14, and I’ll be back to opining in a few days.

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I'm pretty sure you can thank The Language Log for driving folks here in droves. Heck, I live in Middle River and only came here through the LL post on plagarism and allusion.

But I'm here to stay, I think. :)

Enjoy de vivre.

Does this mean you will have 'gone missing' or merely 'turned up missing' for the next few days? I'm sorry - I've behaved badly and I apologize. Bonne vacance.


JEM: Ah, you'll recall the lines from Flanders and Swann's "Ill Wind," the song set to the final movement of Mozart's fourth horn concerto:

"I've lost that horn,
"lost that horn,
"found that horn -- gone!"

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John McIntyre, mild-mannered copy editor for a great metropolitan newspaper, has fussed over writers’ work at The Baltimore Sun since 1986. He is the director of its copy desk, an affiliate faculty member at Loyola College of Maryland, a former president of the American Copy Editors Society, a native of Kentucky, a graduate of Michigan State and Syracuse, and a moderate prescriptivist. If you are inspired by a spirit of contradiction, comment on his posts or write to him at john.mcintyre@baltsun.com.
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