Umm, do a what?

Is there room at Yahoo! for an editor? From the Yahoo! Canada homepage on January 16, 2011.

Are dictionaries "gadgets"?

It's obselete twice and obsolete just once on the Yahoo! Canada homepage today, so the correct spelling has got to be obselete, right? Wrong. You know, Yahoo!'s writers really need to consult a dictionary more often - or at least employ a spell check, which can't catch all errors but would have caught these ones. Click the image to enlarge it.

You're so 1990...

.. and it's 1994. It's a blast from the past on the front cover of today's 24 hours Vancouver. Except for the part where January 14-16 in 2010 didn't fall on Friday-Sunday. So it's actually just an error. On the cover page. Yeah.

A long offseason

Mike Vernon retired in 2002, so the word former should precede Calgary Flames goaltender Mike Vernon. From "Home from ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ still on market" on Yahoo! Canada News on January 13, 2011. Click the image to enlarge it.

If you proofread your your writing...

... you'll reduce the chances of publishing extra words, like what happened here to the writer of "Flash mob spreads Marley love" in 24 hours Vancouver on January 12, 2011. Also, shouldn't there be a hyphen in run-up?

Rachelle and Passchendaele

Rachel should actually be written as Rachelle in "Dhavernas makes her mark" in 24 hours Vancouver on January 12, 2011. Then, two paragraphs later,

the writer manages to misspell Passchendaele. I guess she's still learning journalism basics despite already being a *cough cough* professional.

Writing on trial

The case of this article ("Amanda Knox murder movie producers on the defensive" in 24 hours Vancouver on January 12, 2011) has been brought before me. First, the writer is charged with gross negligence in the absence of hyphens from 21-year-old's. Next,

there is disorder in the court as I can't make sense of is adamant the picture won't have impact the ongoing legal proceedings. I think the writer should have jettisoned have. Finally,

here is the article's photo caption, and, as the first image above shows, there is no The in the movie's title. Addendum: 24 hours Vancouver should really do something about movie titles never being italicized in photo captions.

Jennifer Lopez got bigger

When I signed out of my email on January 11, 2011, the first eye-catching centre-screen text I saw on the Yahoo! Canada homepage was what you see above. Jennifer Lopez - with two Ns - has not changed her name. Elsewhere on the same page at the same time,

is this misspelling of freedom. Yahoo!'s writers are a little too freewheeling for my liking.

An E every second

Someone was a little E-happy while writing the above photo caption from "B.C. drunk driving deaths rise in December" on CBC News online on January 12, 2011.

The writer's is also not afraid

Perhaps the text originally read Heidi Klum's not afraid to make a fool of herself, but the text that appears above makes the writer (of "Klum gets silly on new kids show" in 24 hours Vancouver on January 10, 2011) look like a fool.

Unpleasant writing

Evil HR Lady is either a pleasant blogger or an unpleasant blogger. It looks like the writer (of "Get on board with blogs to help bag that job" in 24 hours Vancouver on January 10, 2011) isn't sure which. Also, the apostrophe in She explains how HR minds' work shouldn't be there. Finally, then should be than in the article's penultimate sentence.

Crossing too many Ts

There is only one T in Abbotsford. From "Abby abduction" in 24 hours Vancouver on January 10, 2011.

To C or not to C

Considering Nicklas Lidstrom wears a C as the captain of the Detroit Red Wings, it's funny to me that this writer (of "Canucks look to keep fire burning against Flames" in 24 hours Vancouver on January 5, 2011) dropped the C from his first name.

Tuscon indentified

Oh, Yahoo!, you always know how to cheer us up. As we look for updates regarding a sombre news story, you manage to crack us up with wacky misspellings. Here we have Tuscon instead of Tucson and indentified instead of identified. Both of them in a three-word teaser. Nice work. From the Yahoo! Canada homepage on January 8, 2011. Click the image to enlarge it.