Amphibian problem

From this "for sale by owner" listing:



















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This is a skink (from Virginia Herpetological Society):

We'll be back!

We've been ill with flu and had to replace the computer and other drudgery.

We'll be back with more typos and awful grammar in a day or two.

Twitter me this

I've rarely used Twitter and have no earthly idea what twitterhit is.

Looks like somebody should be proofreading:

Oh, no, Spock!

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If the mainstream media can't get the spelling correct, are they reporting anything factually?

This can't be the first time Esquire has printed Nimoy's name.

UPDATE: Esquire spelled it correctly nine times in the past.

Munch ado

It's discouraging when professionals can't spell somebody's name correctly, and consistently, throughout one article.

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Want did you say?

Not a spelling error or typo, but another example of poor or no proofreading at The Daily Snooze. Found by Apostrophe Teen. Link:

Possessive, not plural

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There's an echo in here

Software problems at the Daily News?

Link (at the time of posting):

There are two identical articles, here and here.

They hit a triple

Link (July 15, 2009 evening):

As of post time, they had three different links, too:

Here

Here

And here.

Lack of consistency

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Y, oh y?

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Call the police!

And see how they like having their name spelled wrong:




It's spelled correctly elsewhere in the article. What gives, Daily News? Surely you can do better than this!

And another thing: How in the world can you tell it's an "assault rifle" - whatever that is - from this evidence:




It can't be a hunting rifle, or a gun used for sport or target shooting, it has to be an "assault rifle"? Is that what the casings have stamped on them? Sheesh.

Again and again

From the front page of Fox News today:




OMG, they did it again in the article headline:





UPDATE:

I almost missed the other goof. The piece ends:

The lots of Hardcore Energize Bullet and New Whey included in the recall are:

And that's it. No more info.

Sheesh, Fox, I work cheap!

It's gotta be U

Link

Sore loosers?

Link. I don't know how long the article will stay on the page, but here's the misbegotten headline:

UPDATE: MORE!

Here:

And here:

Gov't inefficiency

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I want to take you hire

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Or! Or! Or!

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C'mon, use your spellchecker!

Sheer laziness.

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Just deserts.

I didn't watch the video because I'm on dialup, but I strongly suspect that they meant people who sell sweets - not sand. Correction welcome.

UPDATE: Video link is captioned correctly, if it's cheesecake they're talkin' about.

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Spelled the same way since 1942...

...and not like nola.com did it:

The long and short of it.

Blooper at Nola.com:

"O" say can you see...

Apparently not.

I was looking for a picture of the old school building/union hall in Bogalusa that was torn down after Katrina and came across this headline:

Must be contagious...

The reign/rein dysfunction appears to have afflicted CBS News, too.

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Reign in that horse, podner!

Some journalists have trouble with homonyms - as in this example from the San Francisco Examiner online.

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Whoops, they did it again.

Sigh.

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"It is seventh murder"???

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Hyphen fail.

I don't know where or why the fad started about hyphens and age. It's all over the 'net now; ages are hyphenated no matter how the phrase is used.

Proper: "He was a five-year-old boy." Improper: "He was five-years-old."

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More then enough!

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Peak-a-boo!

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"Scoundrelous" spelling

From the front page of Fox News, June 12, 2009 at 9 p.m. Central time:

They stole the spellcheck, too

From back in 2008, but this is unbelievable:

Out in left field

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Fly away, apostrophe!

"It" does NOT become possessive with the addition of apostrophe S. It becomes a contraction meaning "it is."

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Heres what I mean

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"G" whiz!

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Headline blooper - UPDATE

The Daily News fixed their online version of the article; a reader pointed out the error in the comments. Sadly, the dead-tree issue went out with the misspelled headline on the front page.



See: Headline blooper

Signage fail

When I see a sign that says "Local Flavor," I expect that the produce was grown nearby. It'd also be nice if the country of origin was spelled correctly.

Here's a bit of a contradiction from the Bogalusa Winn-Dixie:





Unfortunately, my cell phone's camera isn't good enough to get a clear closeup of the stickers on those baby bananas. It said they were grown in Costa Rica.

Road hazards

We've got a twofer:







Should be "Wilson Magee Rd." and "Frank Dillon Rd.," according to Google Maps.

Headline blooper

Spellcheck would have caught this one in The Daily News:

The A's have it, lol.

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What virus was that?

I despair. Even the medical reporter at Fox News misplaced his/her Taber's:




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It's Epstein-Barr, not "Ebstein-Barr." Sheesh.

WWL-TV, where is your editor?

From Bar owner murder, spate of violence has many concerned

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The first sentence isn't anything to be proud of. It should read, "The recent violence, some say, carries..."

The peak of carelessness

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ePiC FAIL

When composing street signs, usually the name of the street is the same on both sides.

In this brilliant example, the name is misspelled on one side and correct on the other. Or maybe they ran out of the letter E.



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