The first error in this article ("Canucks have Predators on the ropes" on CBC Sports online on May 5, 2011) is fairly tame - an should be a - when you compare it to
the errors found in this awful 11-word sentence. Elder? No. His name is Edler. And defencemen should be defenceman. Click an image to enlarge it.
The city is not Coqutilam; the city is Coquitlam. From "6 in custody following armed jewelry heist" on CBC News online on May 5, 2011. Click the image to enlarge it.
The writer of the photo caption that is at the top of "Complaint filed with NHL over Green Men's antics" on CBC Sports online on May 1, 2011, apparently couldn't see the correct spelling of Johnson that is right there in front of him. Then,
in the article itself, rallyed is not a word - it should be rallied. And the second sentence would be better with no commas. Also,
in another CBC article ("Lightning take advantage of mistake" on CBC Sports online on May 2, 2011), there's another misspelled last name in the top-of-the-article photo caption. Vincent's last name - which is correctly spelled in the article's first sentence - is Lecavalier. Click an image to enlarge it.
Or national proofreading experts. From the CBC British Columbia homepage on May 2, 2011. The article that the homepage links to includes the text, "internationally recognized forensic experts", and that would be one possible fix on the homepage. Another possible fix is to change internationally to international (which is how the article's first sentence was fixed).
That colon is supposed to go after the closing quotation mark. From the CBC British Columbia homepage on April 30, 2011.
The word season should immediately follow regular, and payoffs should be playoffs. From "Carrie Underwood joins Vince Vaughn as Green Men celeb target" on Yahoo! Canada Sports on April 30, 2011. Then,
two sentences later, Glenn Healy's first name is short an N. Yahoo!, are you sure this guy is fit to write about hockey? Click an image to enlarge it.
It should be either and a mysterious package or and one mysterious package, but it shouldn't be and a one mysterious package. From the CBC British Columbia homepage on April 29, 2011.
My best guess is that serves is supposed to be series. From "Car dealer ordered to remove Canucks signage" on CBC News online on April 29, 2011. Click the image to enlarge it.
In three consecutive sentences/paragraphs (in "Think tank slams B.C. minimum wage hike" on CBC News online on April 29, 2011), an error is found in each one. In the first sentence, why did the writer get tripped up with the third it's after getting the first two right? In the second, why is the word from between government and confirmed. In the third, schedule should be scheduled. As a side note, does CBC think that its readers can't handle paragraphs that are longer than one sentence? Click the image to enlarge it.
The headline of the article ("Illegal U-Pass sales costing TransLink millions" on CBC News online on April 28, 2011) has the correct camel-case spelling of TransLink. The article's third sentence/paragraph has the correct camel-case spelling of TransLink. The article's first sentence/paragraph (in, fact the article's very first word) does not have the correct camel-case spelling of TransLink.
There have been a lot of misspelled names lately. Here, in the last sentence of "Luongo, Canucks blank Predators for Game 1 win" on CBC Sports on April 28, 2011, Jordin Tootoo's first name gets a tweak. Click the image to enlarge it.
Barbara's last name starts as Robertson (in "Elderly driver alleges B.C. age discrimination" on CBC News online on April 28, 2011), but
it then becomes Roberston near the end of the article. CBC, please take more care in spelling people's names, especially when they are the focus of an article. Click an image to enlarge it.
In the article ("Hollywood's bad boy" in 24 hours Vancouver on April 28, 2011), the actor is Thomas McDonell. But,
the highlighted quote is attributed to Thomas McConell. Also notice how the article's text reads bulls---, which would account for all the letters in bullshit, but the highlighted quote leaves out the S without adding an extra dash. Hmmm.
What a rush! "You the feeling"? I get the feeling that the word get is missing from between you and the. From "Selke would be nice, but Kesler's chasing Stanley" on NHL.com on April 27, 2011. The error is in the first sentence of an article written by a "Senior Writer" and the error is still there four days after the article was published. Click the image to enlarge it.
