Take this writer to (tennis) court

In the last post, professional men's tennis player Andy Murray had his first name misspelled in an article's first sentence. This time (in "Preview: Lisicki favourite ahead of 33,000-1 semi-finals" on Yahoo! Canada Sports on July 3, 2013) it's professional women's tennis player Agnieszka Radwanska who has her first name misspelled in an article's first sentence. Click the image to enlarge it.

24 hours Vancouverrors - April & May 2013

It's been a while since errors from the pages of 24 hours Vancouver have been featured here, and it's not because those pages have seen perfect writing; it's because I've been accumulating a whole bunch and now it's time to share them. First up, from "Predicting big things from emotional leader Kesler in the playoffs" on April 23, is the above mess. I think it can be solved by removing the is, but don't hold me to that. A couple of hyphens, in full-speed and power-move, would also help. Then,

in "Millennials + managers = meltdowns!" on May 6, gets contains an apostrophe and it absolutely should not contain an apostrophe. Then,

in the photo caption for "Pill bottles debut at advance polls" on May 9, prescription was misspelled. That was on page 4,

and on page 6, in the photo caption for "Riot couple avoids jail time" on May 9, sentenced was misspelled. Then,

in "Hader latest castmemeber to announce SNL departure" on May 15, there was a blatant misspelling in the headline. How was that missed?! Not only is castmemeber not a word, neither is castmember. It should be cast member. Then,

in "Modern thrives on relatability" on May 22, Cam is not Jay's son on Modern Family. Mitchell is Jay's son, and Cam is Mitchell's partner. Good effort there, writer. Then,

later in the same article, it was actually Cam who returned to teaching. Good effort again there, writer. Then,
 

on the same page as those Modern Family errors is this fun alternative spelling of "Gangnam Style" by Psy, which should also be in quotation marks instead of italicized. Click an image to enlarge it.

Yahooooooooo! April 2012

 Errors. The Yahoo! Canada homepage. April 2012. Let's go. On April 4, 900 years old should not have had any hyphens. None. Zero. Then,

 later that same day, department received one T too many. Then,

 again later that same day, of should have been off. Then,

 on April 12, the hyphen in Julia Louis-Dreyfus is not - repeat, not - in the correct place. Then,

  later that same day, Jimmy Buffett's last name was short a T. Then,

 after clicking to the article ("Jimmy Buffet to replace ailing Eddie Vedder in May 3 Jazz Fest lineup" on Yahoo! Canada Music on April 11, 2012), I saw that the headline was also wrong, despite the article itself getting it right in the very first paragraph! For shame, Associated Press and Canadian Press. Then,

again later that same day (April 12), there was another nonword on the homepage. When searching for siezes on dictionary.com, the first suggestion is suezes. The second suggestion is sizes. There are eight suggestions for actual words and seizes is not one of them! Then,

on April 19, there was a misspelling of Denis Leary's first name. And,

yup, the article ("Dennis Leary's Dick Clark tweets raise eyebrows" on Yahoo! Canada News on April 19, 2012) had/has the same error, despite the name being correct in the article's first sentence! Sound familiar? Smh. Then,

on April 20, why did the writer leave the Y out of Trayvon's name (in the smaller font)? Also, does it seem to you, as it did to me, that it was the judge who directly addressed the teen's mourning parents? I checked the article, and it was the accused shooter who did the addressing. Kinda misleading there, Yahoo! writer. Finally,

on April 25, I think the first the should have been then. Done. Click an image to enlarge it.

Skimming is not the exactly the same as proofreading

There is one the too many in this sentence from "Facebook's newest frontier: inside the car" on Yahoo! Canada News on January 9, 2012. The the that does not belong is the one between not and exactly. Click the image to enlarge it.

Two A or not two A?

Doug's last name first appears as Vaughan (in "NBC apologizes to Bachmann for Fallon show intro song" on Yahoo! Canada News on November 25, 2011) before

dropping an A three paragraphs later. Which one is the correct spelling? I have no idea. Click an image to enlarge it.

Bad

It should be either said Grant's spokeswoman in an e-mail or Grant's spokeswoman said in an e-mail. It shouldn't be a combination of both. From "Hugh Grant is new father of baby girl" on Yahoo! Canada News on November 1, 2011. Then,

the article's final sentence has me scratching my head for more than one reason. A quiet year so far in his career? What does that mean? And I think the word an is missing from between in and animated. Pretty crap writing, especially considering there are two names attached to this five-paragraph article. Also,

going back to the top of the article, why is the editor's name the one attached to this and not the person who did the reporting and writing? Click an image to enlarge it.

Whose job is it to proofread?

This article ("Bio expected to light up Amazon" in 24 hours Vancouver on October 27, 2011) is about the biography about Steve Jobs. Notice how I wrote Steve Jobs and not Steve Job? Yeah, that's your first indication that the apostrophe in Job's bio from the above paragraph is incorrect.

What the L? Where's the L?

The city is actually Albuquerque. From "BlackBerry maker accused of infringing BBX trademark" on Yahoo! Canada Finance on October 20, 2011.

He was complained

Hey, Steve. Hey, Bob. See that final sentence/paragraph (of "L Word star booted off plane over kissing dispute" on Yahoo! Canada News on September 26, 2011) that is right above your names? It needs some editing - removing the first was, to be specific. Click the image to enlarge it.

24 hours Vancouverrors

Similarly, when you are a professional writer and make a stupid homophonic mistake, Detected Errors will be right there to mock you. From "Aftershock talk" on August 25, 2011. On the same day,

there was a misspelling of position in "Overheard" on August 25, 2011. Then,

on August 31, 2011, someone misspelled the first name of the top-ranked player in women's tennis. It should be Caroline, but you know, no biggie. From "Djokovic cruises into next round". Click an image to enlarge it.

Yahoooooooooooooooooooooooo! July 2011

It's time! It's time it's time it's time! It's that time of the month; here are all the errors I detected from the Yahoo! Canada homepage during July 2011. First up, from July 5, is one of the three Ls in willling willing to go in exchange for an actual word? Next,

also from July 5, is it lookalikes or look-alikes? Who cares?! Do both! Then,

on July 6, the writer must have quit trying when they misspelled Casey Anthony's name. Later that same day,

someone misspelled volcano. What could possibly be the reason for so many nonwords on Yahoo!'s homepage? July 7 saw three homepage errors, starting

starting with this one. You see, see should be sees. I clicked to the article ("Woman see mother’s face for first time in five years after photo goes viral on Chinese social network" on Yahoo! Canada News on July 7, 2011),

and saw that the article's actual headline was no better. The second homepage error on July 7

was this misspelling of mortgage. Awful. The third error,

was this misspelling of together. That's nothing to laugh about. On July 11,

there was a twofer: in the first line, dismisse should be either dismisses or dismissed, and in the third line the S in UK's should be lowercase and phone-hacking victim requires a hyphen. I guess that makes it a threefer. Oh well. Then,

also on July 11, a Yahoo! "professional" misspelled entertainment. Moving on,

there was a misspelled girlfriend on July 13 and

an extra word - of - on July 15. The next day (July 16, 2011, to be exact),

there was this amusing misspelling of Milky Way. Later that same day,

both accidently and accidentally are acceptable spellings of the same word, but an online news source should probably stick to using one spelling across the entire news site, let alone in two consecutive lines. Holy crap. Then,

on July 17 the first to should have been left out and

an should be a because there is no way you can convince me that giant starts with a vowel sound. One sleep later,

on July 18, there was a misspelling of skull (the story contained info about an injury to a woman's head and had nothing to do with boats). And that last line is all kinds of terrible - into should be in to and form should be for. That writing is poor form. Later that same day,

I don't know how to fix this because I have no idea what the writer was trying to say. Later again that same day,

Yahoo! shared news about Janis Joplin that I hadn't known: first, that she wrote songs for Rolling Stones, and second, that she had passed away recently. When I clicked to the article ("Writer of tunes made into hits by Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin dies at 80" on Yahoo! Canada News on July 18, 2011) to find out more,

the headline reinforced those facts. The truth is that the word and should replace the comma in both instances. Joplin died in 1970 at age 27. Then,

of should have been off on July 20. A day later,

I was intrigued by this. I couldn't tell if I was misreading it, so I kept rereading it hoping some sense would come of it. Finally I gave in and guessed that cave should have been caves and that a whole lot of caves were going to be filled as part of housing developments or something. So I clicked to the article ("Lascaux's 18,000 year-old cave art under threat" on Yahoo! Canada News on June 23, 2011 AFP) and found out

that my guess was wrong. The story was about one old cave, not several thousand caves. But the headline is also short a hyphen in 18,000-year-old. Then,

on July 23 there was a misspelling of multiculturalism. Not just on the homepage,

but also in the article's headline ("Norway killer attacked multicuturalism, Islam online" on Yahoo! Canada News on July 23, 2011). What's extra special about this one is that while many online news articles are published without a writer's name, this article has two names! Plus,

this immediately follows the final paragraph at the end of the article. Priceless! Oh, and despite many comments in the article's comments section that point out the misspelling, the error in the headline is still there today, more than two weeks after the article was published. Also from July 23,

the single-letter word a does not belong between as and two. In fact, it doesn't belong anywhere in that sentence. Then,

on July 25 a writer apparently didn't know that the pitcher's name is Roger Clemens. Finally,

on July 31 rising should have been raising, and there should probably have been a comma after shopping. That's a wrap for last month's recap. Click an image to enlarge it.