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Mistakes the proofreaders should have caught.
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!
Here
:
And here
:
Friday, June 26, 2009
Gov't inefficiency
Link
Monday, June 22, 2009
I want to take you hire
Link
Or! Or! Or!
Link
Saturday, June 20, 2009
C'mon, use your spellchecker!
Sheer laziness.
Link
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
Sunday, June 14, 2009
More then enough!
Link
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Peak-a-boo!
Link
Friday, June 12, 2009
"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
Link
:
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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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