Take a look at this selected image from the S Restaurant advertisement in The Now on January 27, 2010. You saw the two apostrophes, right? Do you think they should be there? Do you think just one of them should be there? Do you think the selected image should be apostrophe-free? Speak and let me know what you think.
One their should be they. Can you do what the writer - of "Public interest" in 24H Vancouver on January 27, 2010 - could not: figure out which their should be changed?
Yes. Of course it is. Just like it's part of the duty of the writer - of "'Inappropriate' free Olympic tickets turned down" on CBC News online on January 26, 2010 - to not include an apostrophe in its when it's clearly a contraction of it is.
Congratulations, The Vancouver Courier! After publishing "Quote of the week" on January 20, 2010, you've now been added to the unwritten list of media outlets that have misspelled Constable Lindsey Houghton's name in the exact same way. The list includes CBC News (twice), 24H Vancouver, and MSN News. Well done! One time 24H Vancouver got the first name right but got tripped up on the last name. I wonder what it is about his name that causes the media such problems. He is a VPD media spokesperson, so you'd think the media could - or should - spell his name correctly. I'd think so anyway. Click the image to enlarge it.
The writer of this article - "So you think you can't dance" in Tri-City News on January 20, 2010 - needs a lesson to show her that six-year-old daughter requires hyphens.
Good use of mettle in the article's headline, but poor use of metals in the photo caption for "Girls display mettle in key mat tests" in The Now on January 22, 2010. Metals should be medals.
Note to writers: when the entire sentence is contained within the parentheses - as it is in "Critics throw stones at allegorical Avatar" in The Vancouver Courier on January 22, 2010 - the period should be contained within as well.
2009, eh? So then the tickets are already available, will be should be were, and starting should be jettisoned. Either that, or 2009 should be 2010. Yeah, I'm thinking it's the date they screwed up in the City of Coquitlam Olympic Flame advertisement in Tri-City News on January 22, 2010. Also, there should be a space after the comma in the date.
The 100-year-old painting is 100 years old. Note my hyphen use pre-painting, and the absence of hyphens post-painting. The homepage of Yahoo! Canada got it wrong yesterday. I wonder if the Yahoo! writer was intentionally going for humor with the headline Woman rips a hole in Picasso. It's awfully similar to the threat, I'm going to rip you a new hole. I think if the a got moved to between in and Picasso, it'd be less tasteless. It wasn't Picasso who suffered the ripped hole, after all, it was a Picasso painting.
The earlier tennis match listed on ESPN Streak for the Cash yesterday has a Status Update of Time is estimated and subject to change. The update for the late match, however, suffers from a misspelling. Is at instead of and a misspelling? Anyway, damn you Roddick - you had a set point in the first set. Grrrr.
This is from "Elin texted as Tiger, learned of affair, say sources" in today's 24H Vancouver. Once again, 24H Vancouver, his name is Tiger Woods, not Tiger Wood.
D'oh! The poll section of 24H Vancouver, which has been the site of numerous errors in the past, was on a very long error-free run. The run ended today - in "Yesterday's poll" - with another case of mismatched colors. What a stupid poll. Gee, I wonder if the results would have been different if they polled only people who needed a hip replacement.
