Are you ready? Seriously, there is a lot to go through here, so you better be ready. We have many - and I mean
many - errors from
the Yahoo! Canada homepage from the last two weeks, plus a few errors from articles we were led to via the errors on the homepage. First up, from February 23, 2011, it's an obvious misspelling of Justin Bieber's last name. Next,
this teaser from February 28, 2011 is kind of ambiguous as to who paid (and who was paid) the million dollars. Consider: jblue paid $10 to eat a burger. Who paid? jblue paid. Therefore, I find it odd that Nelly Furtado coughed up $1M to sing for Gadhafi. Putting
was between
Furtado and
paid would clear things up nice and proper. Then,
Tim Hortons does not have an apostrophe. That's from March 1, 2011. Two days later,
there is a misspelling of
artificial. I wondered how the article itself ("
World first artificial bronchus graft in France" on Yahoo! Canada News on March 3, 2011) would manage with that word,
and saw that the headline did okay, but surely it should be
World's first, as it was on the homepage. In the article's very first sentence,
actually the article's second word, another problem with
artificial. You know, both
artifical and
articifial (seriously, Yahoo!?) would have been caught by a spell check. In the article's second sentence/paragraph,
both commas are missing in the date. It should read
carried out on October 28, 2009, by a team. In case you think
articifial was a simply overlooked typo,
here it is again in the article's third sentence/paragraph. What a fucking joke. Returning to the Yahoo! Canada homepage,
there was a misspelling of
girlfriend on March 4, 2011. Also on March 4, 2011,
where did the second period go in the abbreviation of New Zealand? Or has the country changed its name to New Z? Next up,
you should be your. That was from March 5, 2011. From the same day,
it's more info about Mike Myers and his wedding, which was apparently on the top of the list of all secret weddings in history. Or it was his favourite of all his own secret weddings. Or Yahoo! meant to write
top-secret wedding. Then,
on March 7, 2011, it's an
its/it's homophonic error. Also from March 7, 2011,
I don't understand how this went undetected by the folks at Yahoo!.
Bill Gates'g philanthropy? How does that even happen? The G on a keyboard is far from the enter key, the space bar, and the letter S. So, really, how did that happen? Naturally, I went to the article ("
Bill Gates'g philanthropy costs him richest-man title" on Yahoo! Canada News on March 7, 2011) to see what was up there. First up,
the headline was exactly the same, right down to the ridiculous error. Making it even odder,
is that a few paragraphs into the article, here is the same phrase with absolutely nothing after the S. Finally,
on March 8, 2011, the Yahoo! Canada homepage featured a misspelling of St. Louis. For the first time ever, I've received this error message while adding labels to this post:
The combined length of all the labels must be at most 200 characters. Consequently, several labels had to be omitted. Click an image to enlarge it.
Are you ready? Seriously, there is a lot to go through here, so you better be ready. We have many - and I mean many - errors from the Yahoo! Canada homepage from the last two weeks, plus a few errors from articles we were led to via the errors on the homepage. First up, from February 23, 2011, it's an obvious misspelling of Justin Bieber's last name. Next,
this teaser from February 28, 2011 is kind of ambiguous as to who paid (and who was paid) the million dollars. Consider: jblue paid $10 to eat a burger. Who paid? jblue paid. Therefore, I find it odd that Nelly Furtado coughed up $1M to sing for Gadhafi. Putting was between Furtado and paid would clear things up nice and proper. Then,
Tim Hortons does not have an apostrophe. That's from March 1, 2011. Two days later,
there is a misspelling of artificial. I wondered how the article itself ("World first artificial bronchus graft in France" on Yahoo! Canada News on March 3, 2011) would manage with that word,
and saw that the headline did okay, but surely it should be World's first, as it was on the homepage. In the article's very first sentence,
actually the article's second word, another problem with artificial. You know, both artifical and articifial (seriously, Yahoo!?) would have been caught by a spell check. In the article's second sentence/paragraph,
both commas are missing in the date. It should read carried out on October 28, 2009, by a team. In case you think articifial was a simply overlooked typo,
here it is again in the article's third sentence/paragraph. What a fucking joke. Returning to the Yahoo! Canada homepage,
there was a misspelling of girlfriend on March 4, 2011. Also on March 4, 2011,
where did the second period go in the abbreviation of New Zealand? Or has the country changed its name to New Z? Next up,
you should be your. That was from March 5, 2011. From the same day,
it's more info about Mike Myers and his wedding, which was apparently on the top of the list of all secret weddings in history. Or it was his favourite of all his own secret weddings. Or Yahoo! meant to write top-secret wedding. Then,
on March 7, 2011, it's an its/it's homophonic error. Also from March 7, 2011,
I don't understand how this went undetected by the folks at Yahoo!. Bill Gates'g philanthropy? How does that even happen? The G on a keyboard is far from the enter key, the space bar, and the letter S. So, really, how did that happen? Naturally, I went to the article ("Bill Gates'g philanthropy costs him richest-man title" on Yahoo! Canada News on March 7, 2011) to see what was up there. First up,
the headline was exactly the same, right down to the ridiculous error. Making it even odder,
is that a few paragraphs into the article, here is the same phrase with absolutely nothing after the S. Finally,
on March 8, 2011, the Yahoo! Canada homepage featured a misspelling of St. Louis. For the first time ever, I've received this error message while adding labels to this post: The combined length of all the labels must be at most 200 characters. Consequently, several labels had to be omitted. Click an image to enlarge it.
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