Showing posts with label incorrect names. Show all posts
Showing posts with label incorrect names. Show all posts

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Error in the title

The show is Sex and the City. From "Surviving the ups and downs of a yo-yo relationship" in 24 hours Vancouver on March 20, 2012.

Monday, April 26, 2010

B.. Environment Ministry

I'm going to guess that this sentence - "Diesel spill spoils river" in 24H Vancouver on April 26, 2010 - has a C missing, from what should be B.C. Environment Ministry. A newspaper should inform its readers and not make them guess.

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Atlanta Rraves

The Atlanta Braves got misspelled on ESPN Streak for the Cash on April 21, 2010. Click the image to enlarge it.

Saturday, January 9, 2010

King Edward Street

The writer of the photo caption in "Banner time for the Games" in 24H Vancouver on January 7, 2010, doesn't know, and didn't care to check, that King Edward is an Avenue and not a Street.

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Chloe; Chloe

-- "Missing girls" in 24H Vancouver on December 1, 2009

Don't worry, both Chloe and Chloe - uhh, I mean Chloe and Deanna - were found about eight hours after walking away from school during lunch. The proofreaders and editors at 24H Vancouver, however, are still AWOL.

Friday, March 6, 2009

Jennifer Love-Hewitt; Ghost Whisperer

-- "On the tube" in Vancouver 24 hours on March 6, 2009

Her name does not contain a hyphen, and Ghost Whisperer should be italicized

Sunday, January 4, 2009

CLARKE DR.

-- Receipt from Cedar Cottage on December 4, 2008

In Port Moody, Clarke Drive and Clarke Road both exist, both with the e ending. In Vancouver, it's only Clark Drive, k ending.

SYDNEY, BC

-- 2008 Milano Fashions Calendar

The picture part of the image above is the flip-up part that reveals the months of the year with the text at the bottom being ever present. Do you think that Milano Fashions yearns to be in Sydney, Australia, instead of Sidney, BC?

Saturday, September 27, 2008

guest-stars; ONMI; Sarah Jessica Kennedy; more no's than yes's; Sarah Parker Kennedy

-- "24 seconds with Jessica Parker Kennedy" in Vancouver 24 Hours, Thursday September 25 2008

Prepare yourselves. Maybe you should be sitting. The trouble begins in the photo's caption. The phrase guest stars shouldn't have a hyphen, and it's OMNI, not ONMI. The article subject's name is correct in the caption, and the headline, but then incorrect in the opening sentence. How does that happen? I'm guessing the writer had Sarah Jessica Parker on the mind. As you can see, the initials used in the article are correct. Then, we have more no's than yes's instead of more nos than yeses.

But wait, it gets even better. In the subsequent edition of Vancouver 24 Hours, Friday September 26 2008, is this:


The actress was never mistakenly referred to as Sarah Parker Kennedy! Will the readers get a For The Record for For The Record?

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Transportation Minister Trevor Falcon; to pedal their new support

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-- "More cash for two wheels" in 24 Hours Vancouver, Wednesday September 17 2008

The misspelling is in the photo's caption. As can be seen in the article, the correct name of the Transportation Minister is Kevin Falcon. The use of pedal in the caption has me puzzled. If the writer had used quotation marks around the word, or written peddle, then I'd tip my hat to the writer. But as it stands, it looks they just made a spelling error. One last thing: when naming people in a photo, it is customary to use left and right or similar cues to help the reader identify the people. With Campbell named first in the caption, it makes me think that he is the person on the left. He is actually on the right.