I'm counting errors, of course. Above there's an where and belongs (and I'll look past the apparent redundancy because maybe the quoted person is actually very hopeful about this being a tradition here), as well as a hyphen that erroneously connects so on in "German artisan in good spirit" in 24 hours Vancouver on November 29, 2010. The third error, seen below,
is a misspelling of Herwig Schaub's first name.
There's one arose too many in the above sentence from "Firehalls on display" in 24 hours Vancouver on November 29, 2010.
Hong Kong looks a little different here, but why? New haircut? Lost weight? Negligent proofreading? From "A giving life (Central Park)" in The Vancouver Courier on November 26, 2010.
This is the photo caption from "SkyTrain hero saves man with mangled leg" on CBC News online on November 27, 2010.
Serveral should be several and attached should be attach. This is from the City of Surrey online application process on November 27, 2010. Click the image to enlarge it.
The second you should be your in this sentence from "Tech gear" in today's 24 hours Vancouver.
I had thoughts that this error (seen today on the Yahoo! Canada homepage) would have caused an editor or two to blush, but the errors on Yahoo! happen so frequently that I doubt that's true. Having trouble spotting the error? It'll help if you read the actual article's first sentence: "The skimpy trunks sported by Singapore's men's water polo team at the Asian Games are causing red faces back home in the conservative city-state, with many embarrassed by their design."
I took this photo while staying at Hilton Whistler Resort & Spa in Whistler, B.C., a week and a half ago. There was a sandwich board poolside that featured the correct spelling of absolutely, but I saw three other attempts at the word in the vicinity of the pool and hot tubs and all of them had the spelling seen in the picture.
Editors missed the missing L in the second Williams. From the front page - yes, the front page - of today's 24 hours Vancouver.
It'd make more sense if the article was directed at more than one gentleman, in which case it woudl be gentlemen. From "Gentleman, prepare to pick up your jaws" in today's 24 hours Vancouver.
Is the article about one lineman who faces charges, or about two or more linemen who face charges? I suppose the headline has done it's job of making you read the article, if only to find out which way the headline is screwed. From "Eskimo lineman face charges" in yesterday's 24 hours Vancouver.
Especially in a headline contraction. From "Dont limit yourself to a set of colours, expand" in yesterday's 24 hours Vancouver.
It's a misspelled Scuderia in the photo caption for "Road race nets sports cars" in yesterday's 24 hours Vancouver.
The an should be and in "Flying solo for Christmas" in today's 24 hours Vancouver.
Above is dominant text from The Boathouse Restaurant homepage on November 23, 2010. Plus,
the same error is found on the restaurant's about page. Click an image to enlarge it.
On page nine in today's 24 hours Vancouver readers could take a brief world tour for some international news. Then readers could turn the page and go on another world tour on page 11:
Oh, hold on a sec - it's the same world tour, just with an added stop to see a cute baby panda. Hey, the entire paper is a whopping 34 pages; the writers and editors need to fill all that space with something. Click an image to enlarge it.
The start of The Game Plan is missing from "The Rock back into action genre" in today's 24 hours Vancouver.
Please answer me these questions two. Question the first: What's the difference between a hill and a kill? Question the second: Why didn't the writer (of "Winter days" in 24 hours Vancouver on November 22, 2010) capitalize park?
The author of this article ("Dog day afternoon comes to the library" in The Vancouver Courier on November 12, 2010) doggedly pursued Cesar Millan (two Ls) for an interview prior to recent local appearances, to the point of frustration. Maybe this is her way of getting back at him.
If December 5th of this year is a Sunday (which it is), then how can December 11th also be a Sunday? Oh, that's right - it's not. From a Vancouver Welsh Men's Choir advertisement in The Vancouver Courier on November 12, 2010.
On the left, a picture of Emma Watson. On the right, the surprise could be the missing R. From the Yahoo! Canada homepage on November 19, 2010. Click the image to enlarge it.
I know of Edgar Allan Poe and T.S. Eliot, but I've never heard of the poets the writer uses as examples. From "Mental illness often a gift" in 24 hours Vancouver on November 19, 2010. Click the image to enlarge it.
Actually, the Desperate Housewives star's name is Eva Longoria Parker, sans hyphen. And did you notice how I put the apostrophe in front of the final S in star's? That's because Tony Parker got married only to Eva (and not to Eva plus any of her castmates), and obviously Eva is just one person. From 24 hour Weekend table of contents in 24 hours Vancouver on November 19, 2010.
In one edition of 24 hours Vancouver, there are two to/too errors. The last post was a too that should have been a to, and now we have a to that should be a too, from "The Event full of mistakes, but show can still be saved" in yesterday's paper.
Too should be to in this sentence from "Eighty cats, 79 too many for one home" in 24 hours Vancouver on November 19, 2010.
This is the current poll question on MSN Canada Tech & Gadgets. See the sidebar here.
The writer (of "Mayor Watts back to business in Surrey" in 24 hours Vancouver on November 16, 2010) tried to write Carole Taylor, but came up an E short.
It's a misspelling of Indigo in "Russell Peters at Surrey bookstore" in 24 hours Vancouver on November 16, 2010.
Apparently Yahoo! writers feel like taking the time to proofread is a major nuisance. Even a computer's spell check would have caught this error, seen on the Yahoo! Canada homepage on November 15, 2010. The spelling is correct in the article.
If any proofreading of this article ("New dad Steve Nash announces divorce" on Yahoo! Canada News on November 13, 2010) was attempted, then the proofreader didn't make it very far. Above is the article's first sentence and the first the should be that. Click the image to enlarge it.
It's yet another misspelling - resulting in yet another nonword - on the Yahoo! Canada homepage. This one appeared on November 11, 2010.
I was confused after reading the above on the Yahoo! Canada homepage on November 10, 2010. Was I not understanding something or had a Yahoo! writer committed another error? After clicking to the article, the latter was proven true.
There are often misspellings (which often result in nonwords, as above) on the Yahoo! Canada homepage. This misspelling of fascinates appeared on November 10, 2010.
For some people it might be, and it seems that those people work as writers for the Yahoo! Canada homepage. The question mark in the above question - seen on November 11, 2010 - should go after the closing quotation mark, as it does in the article's headline: Can a university be 'too Asian'?
Since nobody at Yahoo! could see this misspelling of soldiers, the result was a nonword that a computer's spell check would've caught. From the Yahoo! Canada homepage on November 6, 2010. Click the image to enlarge it.
Creative but wrong. More than one student spread the message, so the apostrophe should go after the final S in students. From "Students back U-Pass in full force" on 24 hours Vancouver online on November 5, 2010.
The apostrophe at the end of Cowboys should not be there. From the Yahoo! Canada homepage on November 10, 2010.
The comma and one of the back-to-back thats need to be removed from this sentence found in "Dealing with lovesick teens" in 24 hours Vancouver on November 9, 2010.
The writer has clearly shown that he is able to put an accent on the final E in resume, but then suddenly leaves it off. Be consistent - do it for all of them, or leave it off all of them. Also, the required skills that are required for the position? Seriously? Only use required once. Twice is redundant. From "Experience essential" in today's 24 hours Vancouver. Click the image to enlarge it.
I have no idea what and the storefront of destroyed means. A little help? From "Cookie crumbles" in today's 24 hours Vancouver.
Maybe, maybe not, but I'll tell you what I am concerned about: that there are kindergartners - who don't know when to use a and when to use an - disguised as writers at the offices of 24 hours Vancouver. The above poll question is currently featured on the paper's homepage. [Edit: It's now January 14, 2011, and this poll question is still featured prominently on the paper's homepage. The error, of course, remains.]
I always get a kick when errors appear in an education-related article. In this case, it's a misspelling that results in a nonword - superintendant should be superintendent - that somehow wasn't caught by either a spell check or a proofreader. From "What's wrong with this shirt?" in today's 24 hours Vancouver. Click the image to enlarge it.
Yesterday the Yahoo! Canada homepage featured the correct spelling of LeBron's first name once, but twice was too much to handle. The name LeBron is an example of camel case, which I learned about on Terribly Write. Click the image to enlarge it.
By the far this most of any Hawk - what a mess. To fix it, this needs to be jettisoned, and the needs to be moved to after far. From Patrick Sharp's profile on Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Hockey on November 5, 2010.
There needs to be an apostrophe in doesn't to make it a contraction of does not. From the Yahoo! Canada homepage on November 5, 2010. I watched that interview on David Letterman and thought it was fantastic.
