Showing posts with label Yahoo Canada Autos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yahoo Canada Autos. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

police officer's will allow between 9 and 15 km's over; a small number of driver's will flash their headlights

-- "How to Avoid a Speeding Ticket" on Yahoo! Canada Autos on April 21, 2009

When writing a plural word, you do not add an apostrophe before the S, so in the first image police officer's should be police officers. While km's is tricky, because kms just doesn't look right, one could write either kilometres or KMs.

In the second image, the writer correctly wrote the plural drivers, but then for some reason wrote driver's two sentences later. Driver's is only correct when writing about something possessed by the driver, as in driver's seat.

Friday, March 6, 2009

an exclusive sneak peak

-- "Most Desirable Women of 2009" on Yahoo! Canada Autos on March 6, 2009

Another "professional" writer gets sneak peek wrong. When will we see sneek peek? Probably not for a long time, as a computer's spell check, when used, will catch sneek peek, but not sneak peak. Are you wondering why this article - which has no connection to autos whatsoever (trust me, I did a thorough reading) - is in Yahoo! Canada's Autos section? So am I. What's more, here's the path listed at the top of the article: