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An advantage to knowing what words mean | COMMENTARY

An advantage to knowing what words mean | COMMENTARY

Just call them ‘residents’ | COMMENTARY

Just call them ‘residents’ | COMMENTARY

Hanging up the green eyeshade | COMMENTARY

A last post at this site on my last day at The Sun

By John McIntyre

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June 18, 2021

Hanging up the green eyeshade | COMMENTARY

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Comparisons are odious | COMMENTARY

Comparisons are odious | COMMENTARY

Someone shot someone, but how could we tell? | COMMENTARY

Someone shot someone, but how could we tell? | COMMENTARY

Holding on, giving up | COMMENTARY

Holding on, giving up | COMMENTARY

Grumble, grumble | COMMENTARY

Grumble, grumble | COMMENTARY

Words and the people who make them | COMMENTARY

Words and the people who make them | COMMENTARY

Do you ‘graduate from’ college or ‘graduate college’? Just take the diploma and go | COMMENTARY

Do you ‘graduate from’ college or ‘graduate college’? Just take the diploma and go | COMMENTARY

The lay of the land | COMMENTARY

The lay of the land | COMMENTARY

To Infinitive and Beyond: A Grammar Day Dialogue | COMMENTARY

To Infinitive and Beyond: A Grammar Day Dialogue | COMMENTARY

You’ve only yourself to edit | COMMENTARY

You’ve only yourself to edit | COMMENTARY

Proper words | COMMENTARY

Proper words | COMMENTARY

Pick up the winnowing fork | COMMENTARY

Pick up the winnowing fork | COMMENTARY

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Hyphens are as common as chiggers in tall grass, but don’t worry too much about them | COMMENTARY

Hyphens are as common as chiggers in tall grass, but don’t worry too much about them | COMMENTARY

We have enough rules about language. Stop inventing new ones | COMMENTARY

We have enough rules about language. Stop inventing new ones | COMMENTARY

You want better luck in 2021? Try this | COMMENTARY

You want better luck in 2021? Try this | COMMENTARY

Put the kettle on | COMMENTARY

Put the kettle on | COMMENTARY

I’d like to report a missing plural | COMMENTARY

I’d like to report a missing plural | COMMENTARY

Yes, there is a doctor in the house: Dr. Jill Biden | COMMENTARY

Yes, there is a doctor in the house: Dr. Jill Biden | COMMENTARY

What Pliny told Tacitus | COMMENTARY

What Pliny told Tacitus | COMMENTARY

Once I even allowed my students to read something that was good | COMMENTARY

Once I even allowed my students to read something that was good | COMMENTARY

Another item to add to your pleonasm watchlist | COMMENTARY

Another item to add to your pleonasm watchlist | COMMENTARY

McIntyre: Take a little breath | COMMENTARY

McIntyre: Take a little breath | COMMENTARY

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So you want to be a writer | COMMENTARY

So you want to be a writer | COMMENTARY

Are you one of those people who aren’t able to keep this straight? | COMMENTARY

Are you one of those people who aren’t able to keep this straight? | COMMENTARY

Get your hopefullys up | COMMENTARY

Get your hopefullys up | COMMENTARY

You’d drink too, if you had to read this stuff | COMMENTARY

You’d drink too, if you had to read this stuff | COMMENTARY

Some things you don’t know about editors | COMMENTARY

Some things you don’t know about editors | COMMENTARY

Time to speak up about ‘reticent’ | COMMENTARY

Time to speak up about ‘reticent’ | COMMENTARY

English affords many opportunities for you to make a fool of yourself | COMMENTARY

English affords many opportunities for you to make a fool of yourself | COMMENTARY

You, too, can fight adjectival bloat | COMMENTARY

You, too, can fight adjectival bloat | COMMENTARY

Oh, get over this one too | COMMENTARY

Oh, get over this one too | COMMENTARY

Oh, get over it | COMMENTARY

Oh, get over it | COMMENTARY

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