Which TEAM will committ FEWER ERRORS?

-- ESPN's Streak for the Cash on April 15, 2009

When a writer commits an error in a short sentence about errors, that is ironic.

Jason Priestly

-- "The Great Billy Bob Curse?" in Vancouver 24 hours on April 15, 2009

If the curse involves losing letters from your name, then I think Jason Priestley has found even more evidence.

Daniel and Henrik Sedin is proud to support JEANS DAY

-- BC Children's Hospital Foundation advertisement in The Vancouver Courier on April 10, 2009

They may look identical and never play hockey apart from each other, but Daniel Sedin and Henrik Sedin are not one entity; They are two distinctly individual humans. Therefore, it would be correct to say that they are proud to support Jeans Day.

Billy Bob Thronton

-- "Billy Bob loves Canada" on Yahoo! Canada Video on April 10, 2009

How can we get back at him after his apparent insult of Canadians? I know, we'll misspell his name! Let's transpose the O and R in the video's caption and watch him get furious.

WHILE QUANTITES LAST

-- Ears Hearing Clinics advertisement in The Vancouver Courier on April 8, 2009

Looks like they're all out of Is; quantites should be quantities.

it takes away a little but of the mystery and a little but of the fear

-- "Barnyard dreams" in Vancouver 24 hours on April 14, 2009

Mistyping bit as but once can be forgiven. But twice in the same sentence? Surely any professional writer knows the difference between bit and but. Right?

You can more of Bill Tieleman

-- "Headlines you won't see this campaign" in Vancouver 24 hours on April 14, 2009

I can more of Bill Tieleman, eh? What does that mean? I think the word read should be put between can and more.

Nestoruk fall off 24 hours' radar until he was identified

-- "Mike's journey ends in fatal misfortune" in Vancouver 24 hours on April 14, 2009

It's unfortunate that the writer wrote fall instead of fell.

when something we'll be considered a special or major event

-- "City admits surveillance cameras here to stay" in The Vancouver Courier on April 8, 2009

When something we will be considered a special or major event? Methinks the writer wrote we'll when will was called for. When spoken, we'll and will sound similar, but one reading of that sentence should have been enough to realize the error.

The pair, whose hits include "West End Girls", It's a Sin" and "Suburbia" declined the request.

-- "Pet Shop Boys spurn rescue shelter remix" on Yahoo! Canada News on April 13, 2009

A couple of punctuation issues here. Firstly, It's a Sin needs an opening quotation mark to match its closing one. Secondly, a comma is needed after "Suburbia".

April 15 at General Motors Place at 10 p.m.

-- Vancouver Canucks homepage on April 13, 2009

I understand the NHL's website listing all games' starting times in Eastern time, but this is the Canucks' own website. And they don't even put that it's 10 p.m. Eastern Time. Change 10 to 7 and you'd be fine - wouldn't even need to put Pacific Time.

Jamie King

-- "Caught on film" in Famous, March 2009

Her name is correct on the magazine's cover. Her name is correct in the article's lead-in. But when it comes time for the actual photo caption, Jaime King's name is incorrect.

agree that fightingis simply; have slight,y different views

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-- Vancouver Canucks homepage on April 10, 2009

Just as a linesman does with the two players at the end of a hockey fight, fighting and is need to be separated. What to make of slight,y? Apostrophes, not commas, are used to represent missing letters - as in don't and frickin' - but there's never a time to write slight'y instead of slightly.

Poco Sewing & Vaccuum Ltd

-- "Enter to Win" in Coffee News - Coquitlam South Edition on April 2, 2009

If only there was some device that could come in and suck up one of those Cs. Some sort of literal vacuum.