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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