Showing posts with label Coffee News BC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Coffee News BC. Show all posts

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Better to be approximately right then to be precisely wrong.

Unfortunately, the use of then instead of than (in Coffee News - North Coquitlam for April 2010's week 1) is precisely wrong.

Monday, March 1, 2010

You don't want to be struck by lightening. It can be 54,0000 degrees Fahrenheit; the first to reach the top was Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay

This is from "Did you know..." in Coffee News - North Coquitlam for February 2010's week 3. First off, 54,0000 degrees? So it's either 54,000 or 540,000 - it's the reader's job to guess which, cuz that's how Coffee News rolls. 54,000 is the correct number. Then, the first to reach the top was Sir Edmund Hillary would be perfectly fine, but and Tenzing Norgay had to be added, so was should be were.

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Poco Sewing & Vaccuum Ltd

-- "Enter to Win" in Coffee News - Coquitlam South Edition on April 2, 2009

If only there was some device that could come in and suck up one of those Cs. Some sort of literal vacuum.

Friday, April 25, 2008

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-- www.CoffeeNewsBC.com, Friday April 25th 2008

Oh boy. The above is all on the homepage. First bold: British Columbia. Second bold: omit the comma after here. Third bold: Methinks the wrong N word is capitalised (to continue the previous sentence's strange capitalisation, I guess). Fourth and fifth bold: It's its for both. Use it's when contracting it is or it has, otherwise use its. See here for more on it's and its. What's odd is that on their FAQs page, its is used correctly three times. A different writer/editor, perhaps?

Bott's Dotts // Dr.Elbert Dotts

Road dots: Ever wonder what you call those fluorescent dots down the center of the highway? They're called Bott's Dotts, named after Dr.Elbert Dotts, a chemist with the California Department of Transportation, who invented them.
-- Did You Know... in Coffee News, Friday April 25th 2008

Naming the dots Bott's Dotts when the inventor is named Dotts had me puzzled, so I googled and found out that the above is wrong, wrong wrong. The inventor's name was actually Elbert Botts, and the dots are called Botts' dots. Also, a space is required between Dr. and Elbert.