His writing career should be in Jeopardy!

The writer of this article - "Mayor Rob Ford’s crack scandal featured on Jeopardy" (where's the ! at the end of Jeopardy!?) on Yahoo! Canada News on January 24, 2014 - didn't do his homework to find out the true value of the clue. I don't know the true value either, but I know it wasn't $80 because the minimum value for the first round is $200 and the minimum value for the second round is $400. Then,

the article also included this tweet from a Toronto City Councillor. $500? Also wrong. In the first round the clues in each category are worth $200, $400, $600, $800, and $1,000. In the second round the clues are worth $400, $800, $1,200, $1,600, and $2,000. And what's up with the apostrophe between Toronto and the question mark? In related news,

the final sentence of a different article about Rob Ford - "Toronto Mayor Rob Ford arrives in Vancouver" on CBC News online on January 31, 2014 - contains a misspelling of what should be continued. Click an image to enlarge it.

More questions have been raised

These are the final two sentences in "Security questioned after homeless man allegedly steals ferry in Seattle" on Yahoo! Canada News on December 3, 2013. In the penultimate sentence, it should have been either how he could have managed or how he could manage. In the final sentence, where is the closing quotation mark? Click the image to enlarge it.

Yahooooooooo! July 2013

July 2013 was a month, and this is a post. More specifically, this is a post about the errors found on the Yahoo! Canada homepage during the month of July 2013. First, on July 3, an should have been a. Then,

on July 5 its should have been it. Then,

also on July 5, is this crazy bit of craziness. Do you wonder how someone can face charges after death? Well, what if I told you that Leslie McDonald is not dead? And what if I told you that McDonald is not a he? McDonald is the grandmother of a two-year-old boy who died in a car. I learned that after clicking the link,

and I also found this in the article ("Grandmother charged after Ontario toddler found dead in hot car" on Yahoo! Canada News on July 5, 2013). I have just one question: Did the child do it on her own? Then,

again on July 5, is the unnecessary use of both the dollar sign ($) and the word dollars. Then,

on July 10 I found this embarrassing misspelling that resulted in a nonword. Then,

on July 19 there was a word that looked similar to an actual word. Then,

on July 20 there was a misspelling of Stephen Harper's first name. He's only Canada's current prime minister, so I can understand how the correct spelling of his name would be difficult to determine. Then,

on July 22 either there was an extra E in Yankee or the third E should have been an S. Here's the linked-to article. Finally,

on July 27, Yahoo! reported that someone is on a mission to save someone else while also hiding from the issue. I didn't understand that, but I didn't care enough to click the link to find out more. Click an image to enlarge it.

Yahoooooooo! March 2013

What do we want? Errors! When do we want them? Now! Okay. Here are the errors that were detected on the Yahoo! Canada homepage during March 2013. First, on March 11 it was Topanga on the left (correct!) but Toganga on the right (incorrect!). Then,

on March 22 violet should have been violent. Here's the proof! Then,

again on March 22, what Yahoo! states is "a single typo" is the writing of Harper Canada instead of Harper Government. That's no typo. (Article.) Then,

on March 23 Yahoo! declares that an executive died for a boozy mishap. The truth is that the writer foolishly believes that getting deported is the ultimate price one could ever pay. Then,

again on March 23, John Mayer's last name was wrong. Then,

on March 27 takes should have been talks. (Article.) Then,

again on March 27, it's a contingent so it should have been has been operating. Then,

after clicking to the article ("Canadian fighter jets guarding Iceland’s skies as part of unusual agreement" on Yahoo! Canada News on March 27, 2013), the disagreement issue is correct, but Keflavik Air Bace should be Keflavik Air Base. That's it for that! Click an image to enlarge it.

Here's another poInsert Blockquotest

In the headline (for "Former advisor to Stephen Harper apologizes for supporting right to watch child porn" on Yahoo! Canada News on February 28, 2013), the word advisor is present. Then,

in the article's second sentence, the word adviser is used in the same context. Consistency much? Then,

I'm not quite sure what's going on with members - or, rather, meInsert Blockquotembers. Click an image to enlarge it.

More misspellings? No.

By no I mean now, much like the writer of this paragraph (from "A $1 luxury home in Oakville, Ont. doesn’t sell" on Yahoo! Canada News on September 13, 2011). Then,

in the article's next paragraph, a real estate agent gets introduced as Vasia Argirls. However,

for the rest of the article the agent's last name is written as Argiris.

alone and unhappy

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Dictionary.com tells me that there is no such word as angery. The writer (of "Angry Justin Bieber fans vandalize Esperanza Spalding’s Wikipedia page" on Yahoo! Canada News on February 14, 2011) was probably trying for angry. After telling me there are no results for angery, Dictionary.com asked, Did you mean onegry? I clicked on onegry and found out it's a noun with the following definition: a state of being alone and unhappy. It does seem to fit, so perhaps the writer meant to write onegry and not angry.