Ironic? No. Shoddy writing? Yes.

There's a doubling of by followed by an it's that should be its. From "Isn’t It Ironic? Alanis’s Ultimate ’90s Album Is Heading to Broadway" on Yahoo! Canada omg! on November 8, 2013. Click the image to enlarge it.

A writing horror story

Here's a sentence that doesn't make any sense. Remove the and and it'll be fine. From "Diane Kruger and Joshua Jackson’s Meet the Parents Horror Story" on Yahoo! Canada omg! on July 10, 2013. Then,

there's a who's that should be a whose. Whose fault is that? Click an image to enlarge it.

Yahooo! January 2013

January 2013 was a light month for errors on the Yahoo! Canada homepage, but some were detected. First up, on January 22 someone screwed up the order of the Dancing with the Stars acronym. Then,

on January 23, I'm told that I could do worse than 19 litres per kilometre, which is pretttttty bad itself. Then,

on January 31, the word of was missing from between sea and reports. Also, both lip-syncing and lip-sync have hyphens, but

the headline of the Beyonce article ("Beyonce Admits She Lip Synced at Inauguration" on Yahoo! Canada omg! on January 31, 2013) doesn't have a hyphen. Click an image to enlarge it.

Wiig's first name is a cyclops...

...because it's only got one I. Just like the last post, this is a Yahoo! Movies Golden Globes Blog article. However, where the article in the last post gets pretty much everything wrong, the writer of this article ("Kristin Wiig: Would she host the Golden Globes?" on Yahoo! Canada OMG! on January 14, 2013) simply gets the subject's name wrong. But it's in the headline, and then a few more times in the article itself. The subject is actress Kristen Wiig - there are two I's in her last name, but only one in her first name. In the article's third sentence,

her name is written correctly. But,

it is back to incorrect in both the fifth and sixth sentence. The next time,

it's correct, but

the final appearance is incorrect. Including the headline, Kristen Wiig's first name is written six times, and only twice it's written correctly. 2/6. That's terrible. Click an image to enlarge it.

This is a dog's breakfast

Did you watch the Golden Globes last night? If so, can you spot the error in the above image? Except for a short intro sentence not included in the screen capture, the image contains the entire article ("Tommy Lee Jones: Golden Globes curmudgeon" on Yahoo! Canada OMG! on January 13, 2013), and the entire article is garbage. What does "the male nominees in the best supporting film category" mean? I know the difference between an actor and a supporting actor in a film, but what's the difference between a film and a supporting film? Beyond that, Kristen Wiig and Will Ferrell weren't even presenting the award for any male nominees; they were presenting for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical. Here are some comments made by other readers of the article:

• "They weren't presenting for Best Supporting Actor they were presenting another award. Tommy Lee Jones had already lost at that time."
• "Obviously whoever wrote this didn't watch the golden globes."
• "They weren't describing the men category they were describing the women category, did you even watch the Golden Globes? The clip show them making fun of Meryl Streep's name!!!"

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Will Yahoo! address this ongoing incompetence?

While the previous post featured two errors in one subheadline, this one features one error in one headline. Which is worse? From "Jaleel White adresses ‘Dancing With the Stars’ controversy" on Yahoo! Canada OMG! on April 10, 2012. Click the image to enlarge it.

Alfonso's last name does not rhyme with cheerio

If Alfonso Ribeiro is an egomaniac he may be gunning for the writer of this article. From "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Star Janet Hubert Slams "Egomaniac" Will Smith" on Yahoo! Canada OMG! on December 27, 2011.

When is an error not an error?

When is an error not an error? When it's a finger. More on that in a moment. The first error in this article ("Ashton Kutcher Hands Over Twitter Account to Management" on Yahoo! Canada OMG! on November 10, 2011) is the extra over. The first over, immediately preceding the quote, should be removed. Then,

the article ends with this monstrosity of a sentence. There is no reason for the colon to be there, but that's nothing compared to what the writer claims was pointed at Kutcher's face. An error? An error?! How can an error be pointed at someone's face? Okay, okay, so they meant arrow. That's a typing error, but whatever, right? Wrong, the photo that Kutcher tweeted is included at the top of the article and here it is:

That's no arrow, folks. That's a finger. A friggin' finger. Click an image to enlarge it.