Thursday, January 7, 2010

wprld junior hockey championship; any other player to dawn a Canadian jersey

Pat and Vanna, I'd like to buy a vowel. The misspelled world was seen on Yahoo Canada's homepage yesterday morning. I clicked to the article and the headline was (and still is as I write this sentence) the same:

While it's definitely the most obvious one, it's not the only error in the Yahoo! Canada Sports article. There's also a homophonic error:

Any writer who writes dawn instead of don - and doesn't even correct an editable headline error - should not be considered a professional writer. Oh wait, there's no name associated with the article, which mean there's no accountability. The errors shall remain! Click the images to enlarge them.

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