I've edited my name out, but this was the subject line of an email from Tulalip Resort Casino on February 17, 2012. It was the very first email from them after registering as a member. Let's have a toast to their future emails...
Is the girl's first name Brittany or Brittney? The article ("Caught On Tape: Girl Fights Off Walmart Kidnapper" on ABC News online on February 9, 2012) has it as the former in a caption during the top-of-article video, and as the latter in the article's second paragraph. Click the image to enlarge it.
I recently came across this two-year-old article ("OHL Suspends Kassian for 20 games for hit on Kennedy" on TSN online on January 22, 2010) after Zack Kassian was acquired by the Vancouver Canucks. There are three errors in this one sentence. First, accessed should be assessed. Second, a five-minute major needs a hyphen. Third, there is one E too many in suspended. Click the image to enlarge it.
This is the very first sentence in "Man finds $26,000 in a safe he bought on eBay" on Yahoo! Canada News on February 18, 2012. The article was written by someone with the title of Associate Editor. Click the image to enlarge it.
Eric, writer of this article ("Dreamliner jet “draws” Boeing logo across North America" on Yahoo! Canada News on February 15, 2012), do you really think that 7 and 8 are letters? I would have to assume so, since that's what you wrote - twice. Oh, Eric. Click the image to enlarge it.
In this article, ("New Westminster man saves woman from house fire" on CBC News online on February 12, 2012), David's last name is written six times. It starts as Francoeur in the subheadline and
is also Francoeur in the article's second sentence. But, in the fourth sentence,
the U and E get swapped and his last name becomes Francouer. Then,
in the article's eighth sentence, it's back to the original spelling. However,
it's back to the altered spelling in the very next sentence. And finally,
in the 11th sentence, the final spelling is the original spelling. For the record, the spelling of his last name in the article's photo caption - which would be the seventh time written - is Francoeur. After doing some quick math here (2+2=5, carry the 1, multiply by pi), the last name is written five times as Francoeur and twice as Francouer. Also, it makes me think back to when Sports Illustrated made this same error almost four years ago, during this blog's pre-images era.
This is at the top of every email I receive from City Guru of City Chase. The most recent one was received on February 13, 2012. Either of an should be changed to you have or the second an should be removed. Click the image to enlarge it.
Settle in folks, as it's time to review the errors detected on the Yahoo! Canada homepage during January 2012. After December's measly offering, Yahoo! started the new year back in regular form with a plethora of errors. First, from January 4, the word PlayBook should have mimicked BlackBerry's camel-case capitalization. Something you can easily see in the image Yahoo! provides above the text. Also, Yahoo! only got BlackBerry right half the time in the screen capture above - check out the word in the bottom right corner. Then,
later that same day, Yahoo! featured another undercapitalized camel-case capitalization. It should have been LeBron. Then,
on January 6, someone typed reign when it should have been rein. Gee whiz, if only that person had
simply copied and pasted the relevant words from the headline of the article ("Want True Happiness? Rein in the Buying: Consumer Expert" on Yahoo! Canada Finance on December 19, 2011). Then,
it should have been either lookalike or look-alike on January 8. Then,
later that same day, the the between boils and faster should not have been present. Then,
on January 17, off was missing an F. Then,
on January 18, there was a misspelling of Jim Balsillie's last name. Then,
it's another incorrect capitalization of BlackBerry - this time on January 20. Clicking that link
took me to this headline ("Analysis: Blackberry licensing seen RIM's likeliest scenario" on Yahoo! Canada Finance on January 20, 2012), which also featured an incorrect BlackBerry. As well, it seems as though that word as should be between seen and RIM's. Then,
also on January 20, Seattle should have been capitalized. Then,
also on January 20, allegations was misspelled. Then,
also on January 20, Yahoo! couldn't decide if it was Walmart or Wal-Mart, so went with both. Then,
on January 22, both Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie had their last names misspelled. Then,
the next day, their names were still mispelled. Finally,
on January 24 there were hyphens where there shouldn't have been any hyphens. It may be a 190-million-year-old site, but the site is 190 million years old. See the difference? Alrighty, that's all of Yahoo!'s errors from January! Click an image to enlarge it.
There were a few errors spotted on the CBC British Columbia homepage during January 2012. First up, from January 10, two very different spellings of the same highway. The headline version was correct. Then,
on January 19, there was a misspelling of between that resulted in a nonword. How embarrassing. Then,
after clicking to that article ("Winter storm warning issued for Metro Vancouver" on CBC News online on January 19, 2012), the first sentence had a couple of extra words in the first sentence. Then,
four sentences/paragraphs later in the article, the word to is missing from 
on January 26 there was a subject/verb disagreement on the homepage - the boot (not the remains) is the subject, so have should be has. Finally,
also on January 26, there was an interesting - and utterly wrong - spelling of users. Click an image to enlarge it.
The rule at Yahoo! appears to be to only add an apostrophe (and no S) when a name ends with S and the following word begins with a W. The exception to the rule is when a name ends with S and the following word begins with a W - that requires an apostrophe *and* an S. Got it? From the "News For You" sidebar on Yahoo! Canada News on January 24, 2012.
This is far from the first time I've seen peek misspelled in this fashion, but peek misspelled in this fashion without it following sneak is a rare sighting. From the MSN Canada homepage on January 27, 2012. Click the image to enlarge it.
This on-screen graphic - featuring several misspellings of anthropomorphizes - occurred during The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on January 10, 2012.
Here are some recent errors made by the staff at 24 hours Vancouver. First up, 33-year-old required hyphens in "Heigl keen to adopt again" on January 17, 2012. Then,
affect should have been effect in this sentence from "The bare truth: Showing skin at work not a good idea" on January 23, 2012. Then,
on January 25, 2012, the name was Biddlecombe throughout the article ("Serial killer warning quashed"), but an E got added on final mention. Then,
why did this teaser on the newspaper's front page on January 26, 2012, tell readers that there is only one beach in New Zealand? That the should have been an a. Then,
nobody puts the BC Coroners Service in a corner. From the newspaper's homepage on January 27, 2012. Then,
the first the should have been spotted and removed from this sentence in "Gratuity gripes hit tipping point" on January 27, 2012. Finally,
LMFAO is properly all capped in the headline then all wrong in the first sentence of "Madonna with LMFAO?" on January 27, 2012.
I can understand when misspellings occur and a wrong word appears in an article, but when a misspelling results in a published nonword, that is pure carelessness. From "B.C. ferry report demands changes" on CBC News online on January 24, 2012.
