Bob Rennnie

-- "Olympic Village cost overruns could wipe out profit" on CBC News online on October 6, 2009

The error is the extra N in Rennie; it's too bad the writer didn't put an extra O in Bob.

Are you concerned about their rather lethargic 0-2 start to the season?; YES: 54% NO: 46%

The image above shows the poll question from yesterday's Vancouver 24 hours. Good enough. However when showing the poll's results, the first sentence was dropped.

The result is a nonsensical question requiring the reader to recall the full question from the day before - if they even saw it at all. Granted, the Canucks may have been the only local sports team at 0-2 (now they're 0-3!), but I still think dropping the first sentence is a mistake. Then there's this, yesterday's results from Friday's poll (not Sunday, as their "yesterday" implies):

Is it really that hard to match up the color of the majority poll result with the color of the larger piece of the pie? I understand that the poll section of the paper is very low priority and is an easy space-killer, but since it's in the paper at all, maybe a tad more care should be paid.

Watch the Nobel prize annoucement

-- MSN Canada homepage on October 6, 2009

My announcement is more important (at least as far as MSN is concerned): announcement - when written correctly - has four Ns.

Neeson; filming the The A-Team

-- "Neeson in town" in Vancouver 24 hours on October 5, 2009

Either Liam Neeson is now just going by one name, like Madonna and Oprah, or 24 hours has failed to include his first name. I'm thinking it's the latter. Putting the in front of The A-Team is wrong. If I told you that this was in the entertainment section near the back of the paper you'd believe me, right? What if I told you that this was in the breaking news section on the paper's 3rd page? The supposed importance is probably due to the brunette being stunning. Really, 24 hours? Really?

Canadian Breast Cancouver Foundation

-- "Thousands support power of pink at run" in Vancouver 24 hours on October 5, 2009

Cancouver. What can I say about Cancouver? It looks like Vancouver. Just let that capital C spin counterclockwise ninety degrees and indeed you have Vancouver, albeit with a capital V that looks like a U. But hey, Uancouver looks more like Vancouver than Cancouver looks like a word. Of course, Cancouver is supposed to be Cancer, but you've got to remove ouv for that.

not yet released it's complete transit plan.

-- "Time to share road" in Vancouver 24 hours on October 5, 2009

I think it's time for 24 hours to release some of its writers. A job requirement for being a journalist should be knowing the difference between it's and its.

ADVERTISMENT

Before the paper's design overhaul, a front page advertisement always had a small-print heading of PAID ADVERTISMENT. The inaugural post-overhaul issue had a front page advertisement with a very visible error, but no declaration of advertis(e)ment, paid or otherwise. Above is the second post-overhaul front page advertisement -from yesterday's issue - and while PAID is gone, ADVERTISMENT is present. Overhaul incomplete.

Sneak peak at fall entertainment

-- "Sneak peak at fall entertainment" in Vancouver 24 hours on October 2, 2009

I suspect that the main reason we won't see sneek peek is because spell check will catch that error. However, it looks like we can look forward to many more sneak peak (or, more generally, peak/peek) errors.

procastinate

-- "Don't procastinate on important conversations" in The Vancouver Courier on September 25, 2009

If you can spell procrastination correctly in the article's first sentence, you probably could - and definitely should - spell procrastinate correctly in the article's large headline.

Stephanie Meyers; Ann Rice

-- "Book keepers" in The Vancouver Courier on September 25, 2009

While the writer of this article is an author with a novel coming out soon, it's unfortunate that he can't be bothered to correctly spell the names of two prominent authors. Twilight author Stephenie Meyer usually becomes Stephanie or Meyers, but to do both in one go is exceptional work. The other author is Anne Rice.

Susanne Anton

-- "Democracy deathwatch (Central Park)" in The Vancouver Courier on September 25, 2009

Earlier in the story she was Suzanne Anton; the writer should have kept it that way.

The lake and it's surrounding vegetation; Justince Building

In a brochure put out by the City of Coquitlam - "Town Centre Park and Hoy Creek trails" - the word its is home to an errant apostrophe.

The brochure's map features a Justince Building. I wonder what one might find there.

Krisitin Chenoweth

-- "Glee (Our pick)" in Vancouver 24 hours on September 30, 2009

I spy with my little eye, a name with one too many Is.

(If this actually is an approximation of your life, I apologize for making it sound boring).; it could take a more than an initial three-hour meet

The error above (placing the period outside the closing parenthesis when the entire sentence is within the parentheses) is from "A fresh perspective equals better dates" - an article in today's Vancouver 24 hours.

Later in the same article, the single-letter word a should be jettisoned.