Tuesday, November 3, 2009

their teamates nicknames; to give Mason Raymond the nickname "Perry" This one works on two levels.

The article "The Hoff, Lululemon and Aroma" in Vancouver 24 hours on October 28, 2009, has me thinking of the rough-and-tumble Canucks players sitting around sipping some chamomile tea. Their teamates nicknames? Seriously? Teamates is actually not a recognized word. The writer wanted teammates but failed miserably. And for good measure he/she left the apostrophe off of tea(m)mates' nicknames - the nicknames do belong to the teammates, right? Here's another error from the same article:

Pin the period into the paragraph.

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