John McIntyre

Bicyclists, and motorists, have a stake in how Maryland is updating its Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan.  We’ll talk to the Maryland Department of Transportation’s project manager, and to the Executive Director of Bikemore, a Baltimore advocacy group.

Then, copy editor John McIntyre’s new book is called "The Old Editor Says: Maxims for Writing and Editing." Today, The Baltimore Sun veteran explains some maxims. Like this one: "If you are not possessed of a perpetually filthy mind, you are ill-equipped to edit."

March 20, 2013

John McIntyre edits The Lord's Prayer

How to know when you're "looking up a dead hog's ass"

Much, much more

Veteran Baltimore Sun copy editor John McIntyre is known for his way with words, and in this interview, McIntyre proves that he can even make a case for the proper use of profanities.

Prompted by Geoffrey Nunberg's book Ascent of the A-Word, McIntyre unpacks the meaning of the seven-letter word which describes a jerk or a cad (and which causes Maryland Morning's producers to hit the bleep censor.)

John McIntyre gives a full, rousing rendition of "The Very Model of an Amateur Grammarian"

Participants in a new study report being afraid to talk with their doctors about their own health conditions. We ask a Johns Hopkins bioethicist about the doctor-patient communication barrier.

Language wars! Veteran Baltimore Sun copy editor John McIntyre negotiates a truce between the prescriptivists and the descriptivists.

One of our favorite blogs here at Maryland Morning is You Don’t Say, which contains the musings and grammatical instruction of veteran copy editor John McIntyre.

Yesterday was the deadline for initial recommendations from a special state Senate committee on ethics reform. We’ll talk to the chair of that committee, Democratic State Senator Jamie Raskin, about potential changes in how Maryland’s legislators police themselves.

Not sure how to celebrate National Grammar Day? Let John McIntyre of the Baltimore Sun show you the way.

Post-Oscars punditry from Jed Dietz and Mike Sragow.

Are budget cuts affecting the ability of firefighters in Baltimore to respond to fires quickly? We discuss the issue with Baltimore’s Fire Chief, James Clack.

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.

As his daughter leaves to volunteer in Alaska and the young West Baltimore man he mentored deploys to Afghanistan, Tom Hall brings us this essay about young people’s choices in Baltimore.