Triple threat

There are three errors in this article ("Teen kills self after accidentally shooting girlfriend" on MSN Canada News on April 14, 2011). First off, the third sentence/paragraph from this article is missing the word that immediately before was. Then,

three sentences/paragraphs later death should be deaths. Finally,

the third last paragraph doesn't make much sense. "Taylor and a friend cooked had dinner"? Click an image to enlarge it.

An apt punishment for the writer: see article.

Ugh. I don't understand how an article like this makes it to a news site for readers to read. The first three paragraphs of the article ("Woman stranded overnight on Whistler gondola" on MSN Canada News on March 10, 2011) are above, and we'll start the corrections by noting that the opening sentence should have a comma immediately after week. Next, the second sentence/paragraph should open with the word The preceding 25-year-old woman. Later in that same sentence, is a person really capable of downloading to a village? How does someone - how does anything - download to a village? Surely that should be descending. Then, in the second sentence of the second paragraph, normal should be normally. Finally, there is a missing word in the final sentence/paragraph; a should be between in and cabin. Click the image to enlarge it.

Putting on a show

The writer of this article ("West Coast windstorm cancels ferries, cuts power" on MSN Canada News on March 2, 2011) put on a show of errors. First it's a misspelling of Horseshoe Bay. Then,

it's a factual error. I read this article online on Wednesday morning as I waited for the storm to hit later that day. The release must have been Tuesday night.

Paralymic Winter Games

From MSN News today. This is the second time we've detected this misspelling of Paralympic. The first time was in the pages of 24H Vancouver. I answered "What's that?", because, really, what are the Paralymic Winter Games? [It's now Sunday, March 21, and the poll's question is still the same, and the error is still there.]

(There's a minimum gift card value of $25).

The writer of this article - "Get a gift card? Tips to wring every cent from it" on MSN Canada News on December 24, 2009 - should've put that final period inside the closing parenthesis.

He's the same guy who left after almost two seasons in Steeltown amid talk the only person who liked him was the quarterback himself?

-- "Printers leads Lions to OT win over Ticats" on MSN News on November 15, 2009

That second sentence/paragraph is a question? I don't think so; Homey don't play dat.

Cheryll Witz, who's father Jerry Taylor, was fatally shot on a Tucson, Arizona, golf course in March 2002, said she was unhappy

-- "D.C.-area sniper 'died very peacefully'" on MSN Canada News on November 11, 2009

As I neared the end of the long article, which had so far been error-free, I was surprised to see two errors in one sentence in the article's penultimate paragraph. Who's should be whose and the comma after Taylor should not be there.