targetting touth

-- Yahoo! Canada homepage on April 2, 2009

First of all, targetting is not a word. Second of all, touth is not a word. Assuming the first word is supposed to be targeting, should the text then be targeting tooth or targeting youth? The linked-to article is "Stop scammers from targeting your teens", so I'm guessing the latter. And, hey, at least the article's headline didn't have an extra t. (Note: several hours after the errors were first detected touth is now youth on the homepage, but targetting remains.)

The gadget hackers are targetting next

-- Yahoo! Canada homepage on August 11, 2009

Targeting has two Ts total. Maybe Yahoo! can take solace in the fact that targeted and targeting are frequently misspelled in the media.

Thieves targetting transit

-- Vancouver 24 hours front cover on May 19, 2009

Normally I restrict the screen capture to the error itself, but in this case I wanted to show just how prominent the error is. Yes, that is the newspaper's front page. The page-three article has it correct as targeting.

may be targetted

-- "RCMP warn of potential kidnapping at Richmond school" on CBC News online on June 9, 2009

Targetted and targetting are common misspellings in the media. I wonder why.

Yahooooo! June 2013

Symptoms should have been symptom, and I don't really know what "He could even grow beard" means. Even if it was even grow a beard, I'd still be confused. A man could even grow a beard?? What??? That's crazy!! That was on the Yahoo! Canada homepage on June 6. Let's see what other errors Yahoo! presented to its readers during June 2013. Next up,

on June 8 there was a nonword: targetting. The correct spelling is targeting. Then,

on June 14 there was a misspelling of homosexuality. It was also misspelled in the article's headline before it was eventually corrected - the evidence is in the article's web address. Then,

on June 20 there was an obvious misspelling of and. Obvious, that is, to anyone who doesn't work at Yahoo!. Lastly,

on June 21 and was spelled correctly, but it was repeated. Click an image to enlarge it.

CBC British Columbia homepagerrors - August & September 2013

It's time for a recap of the errors seen on the CBC BC homepage, and you're in luck! What you have in front of you is two months worth of errors wrapped up in one delicious post (but please don't try to eat your computer). First, on August 11 it was reported that there was a crash involving a cruise ship full of police officers. The huge news is that there's a cruise that visits Prince George (not the royal baby), because that's a remarkable feat when you consider how far that city is from the ocean. Then,

on August 22 there was the redundant use of both a dollar sign and the word dollars. Then,

that homepage sentence is still alive and well as the article's first sentence. ("'I can't believe my eyes' says Burnaby lottery winner" on CBC News online on August 22, 2013.)  Three short paragraphs later, there's a number that should be numbers and there's a number that shouldn't have had the word million after it. Then,

on August 30 there was a my that should have been by and a missing storm that should have been between lightning and last. Then,

on September 3 there should have been a been between have and working, and there shouldn't have been a space between games and the comma that followed it. Then,

on September 9 the word sex was missing from between non-consensual and with. Then,

on September 14 targetting (yet another nonword on a homepage) should have been targeting. Then,

on September 23 there was another nonword. Crikey. Cricitism should have been criticism. Then,

after clicking to the article ("Nanaimo newspaper letter draws First Nation's cricitism" on CBC News online on September 23, 2013), I saw that the headline was exactly the same. That obnoxious headline deserves all the criticism (C-R-I-T-I-C-I-S-M) everyone can muster. Nonwords on homepages, nonwords in headlines - nobody behind the scenes who cares? As you can see in the image, below the headline, the article was updated at least once after posting, yet the glaring error remained. Finally,

on September 26 there was a repeated the between to and governments. Click an image to enlarge it.

Targetting errors

There are only two Ts in targeting (if you want to spell it correctly). That's something that a simple spell check would have told the writer. From "Elections agency probes harassing calls" on CBC News online on April 19, 2011.