Saturday, June 27, 2009

Sore loosers?


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






UPDATE: MORE!









Friday, June 19, 2009

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.

Link

Thursday, June 18, 2009

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:

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Must be contagious...

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

Link

Reign in that horse, podner!

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

Link

Whoops, they did it again.

Sigh.

Link

Monday, June 15, 2009

"It is seventh murder"???

Link

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."

Link

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Fly away, apostrophe!

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

Link:



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Saturday, June 6, 2009

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

Friday, June 5, 2009

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:

Thursday, June 4, 2009

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.

Monday, June 1, 2009

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..."