You Don't Say: Hit parade - English grammar, language, usage and journalism blog by John E. McIntyre

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Hit parade

I’m taking a couple of weeks of vacation and will be posting fitfully, if at all. Lest you suffer from withdrawal, here are some links to previous posts that have proved popular or useful. Don’t neglect to look at the comments.

And, of course, if there is a post that you particularly enjoyed, you can name in it a comment; if there is one you found particularly stupid and misguided, feel free to take a swipe at it.

The videos

How to tie a bow tie

How to use a pocket handkerchief

How to make a martini

How to judge a book by its cover

The purportedly humorous

Linnaeus on the copy desk

Those amazing wordsmiths

A drink with the author

Journalism

The main things

Just throw the ball already

Punctuated equilibrium

Lying, cheating and stealing

Just write what they said

Grammar isn’t everything

What I don’t care about

Johnsonian maxims

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John McIntyre, mild-mannered editor for a great metropolitan newspaper, has fussed over writers’ work, to sporadic expressions of gratitude, for thirty years. He is The Sun’s night content production manager and former head of its copy desk. He also teaches editing at Loyola University 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, he writes about language, journalism, and arbitrarily chosen topics. If you are inspired by a spirit of contradiction, comment on the posts or write to him at john.mcintyre@baltsun.com.

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