Posts tagged ‘John McIntyre’
6-11-12: You Don’t Say
Veteran Baltimore Sun copy editor John McIntyre on language.
3-2-12: National Grammar Day, Local Grammar Expert
Not sure how to celebrate National Grammar Day? Let John McIntyre of the Baltimore Sun show you the way.
1-4-11: You Don’t Say
Veteran Baltimore Sun copy editor John McIntyre on language issues new and old: 2011’s Word of the Year, and grammar disputes from the first century B.C.
10-3-11: You Don’t Say
Veteran copy editor and Baltimore Sun night content production manager John McIntyre on everything from the history of the semicolon to the pleasures of bourbon.
5-24-11: You Don’t Say
Matters grammatical and sartorial with copy editor and Baltimore Sun veteran John McIntyre.
12-15-10: The Santa Claus of Clauses
John McIntyre is a veteran copy editor and the Baltimore Sun night content production manager. So Sun reporters, you better listen up–he’s got a list of banned holiday clichés, and he’s checking it twice.
10-6-10: Limn City
Who’d have thought that putting the word “limn” in a Baltimore Sun headline would spark angry letters and a spike in web traffic? The Sun’s veteran copy editor John McIntyre tells Sheilah about the power of four-letter words…that no one understands.
5-28-10: The War on Peevology
Copy editor John McIntyre tells us why we oughtn’t waste our breath correcting other people’s grammar.
3-2-10: National Grammar Day, Local Grammar Expert
Former Baltimore Sun copy desk chief John McIntyre helps Sheilah prepare for National Grammar Day.
12-23-09: Wee Regret teh Error
Staying credible in the face of copy desk cuts.
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