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• Kate Moss and Playboy

  
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  Kate Moss is posing as a playboy. Or posing for Playboy. Or posing with a playboy. Heck, I don’t know what she’s doing. And neither does the editor for Yahoo! Shine: Filed under: Missing Words Tagged: editing , missing word , misspelling , Shine , Yahoo! , Yahoo! Shine
  4 days ago

• Making a clean getaway

  
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  The situation is pretty much cut-and-dried: There’s misspelling in this headline from Yahoo! News ‘ “The Sideshow”: Maybe the burglar was trying to launder money or attempting to make a clean getaway. In any case, this guy is washed up as a burglar. Filed under: Misspellings Tagged: bad spelling , ...
  5 days ago

• My Brain Just Exploded Trying to Figure This Out

  
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  Submitted by:Tinaweena Tagged: bad , wtf , tattoos , misspelling , funny , g rated , Ugliest Tattoos Share on Facebook
  6 days ago

• What should the press corps ask?

  
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  Yahoo! News asks this question: I think the press corps should ask, “Why don’t Yahoo! ‘journalists’ know how to spell? And why don’t they use a spell-checker?” Filed under: Misspellings Tagged: bad spelling , editing , incorrect spelling , misspelling , proofreading , spelling , spelling ...
  1 week ago

• Senior citizen files sues

  
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  Can’t you imagine what went through the Yahoo! Sports ‘ “Prep Rally” writer’s head when trying to come up with a headline? “Should I say ‘senior citizen files suit’ or ‘senior citizen sues’? Oh, crap, I’ll use ‘em both”: Any writer who thinks that’s OK would probably also think ...
  1 week ago

• The most surprising writing mistake

  
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  The most surprising thing about headlines on Yahoo! Shine is that they include typos and misspellings that would be found by any spell-checker — if the writer had bothered to use one: Filed under: Misspellings Tagged: bad spelling , editing , funny writing errors , funny writing mistakes , incorrect ...
  1 week ago

• A question with a familiar ring: You get paid to write that crap?

  
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  Here’s a question I often ask myself when reading Yahoo! News : Those folks actually get paid to write? Any self-respecting writer or editor would be embarrassed by a caption that includes a misspelled familiar and a sentence where every word is capitalized. Filed under: Capitalizing , Misspellings ...
  1 week ago

• Of her own accord

  
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  It seems that when it comes to the name of this article’s subject, Yahoo! Shine writer just makes up a spelling, choosing to call the subject Acord, Accord, and Acorn: For the rest of the article, the writer refers to the woman as “Acorn.” Her name is Megan Acord. Filed under: Misspellings Tagged: bad ...
  1 week ago

• I’ll be working on my maintan

  
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  Autoblog posted this item on Thursday : Whatever “maintance” is, apparently you get two years’ worth on your new Impala.
  1 week ago

• It’s on the list

  
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  It appears on most lists of the most frequently misspelled words, so why does the writer for Yahoo! Sports ‘ “Prep Rally” misspell liaison ? And why didn’t the writer’s spell-checker flag that suspicious spelling? Oh, yeah, I forgot. Yahoo! staffers don’t use spell-checkers. Filed under: ...
  1 week ago

• Slicing up muttonchops

  
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  Who would cut up muttonchops ? The folks at yahoo.com: Filed under: Misspellings Tagged: bad spelling , editing , incorrect spelling , misspelling , muttonchops , proofreading , spelling , spelling error , spelling mistake , Yahoo! , Yahoo! front page
  1 week ago

• Harmless and ridiculous

  
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  What do you call something that is both harmless and ridiculous?  Just ask the writer for Yahoo! Sports ‘ “Prep Rally.” He’s come up with a word for it: Filed under: Misspellings Tagged: bad spelling , Cameron Smith , editing , incorrect spelling , innocuous , misspelling , Prep Rally , ...
  2 weeks ago

• News to confuse

  
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  You never know what to expect on Yahoo! News — except mistakes. You can be sure you’ll find a few every day — like this photo caption: It showed up a little later looking like a headline: At least it makes sense, which is more than I can say about this: I think a homicidal kidnapper was ...
  2 weeks ago

• It’s irresistible — except when it’s not

  
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  I find pointing out misspellings on yahoo.com irresistible — except that this misspelling isn’t irresistible : Apparently Yahoo! doesn’t require that its writers use a spell-checker because they just can’t resist misspelling irresistible . Filed under: Misspellings Tagged: bad spelling , ...
  2 weeks ago

• Doesn’t she look like Anna Nicole Smith’s daughter?

  
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  Psych! You thought this was Dannielynn Birkhead, Anna Nicole’s daughter, didn’t you? Me, too. But the genius writers at Yahoo! omg! , who are experts in pop culture, say otherwise.   Filed under: Misspellings Tagged: Anna Nicole Smith , bad spelling , editing , incorrect spelling , misspelled ...
  2 weeks ago

• LendingTree BS (Bank Speak) Commercial

  
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  In this commercial for LendingTree’s online comparative mortgage tools, Len and his friend Lenny (a green puppet with an orange nose) go to the bank to get a mortgage. As the bank-loan officer sits at his desk giving them the details of the mortgage they are about to get, Lenny the puppet speaks up. “Uuugh, I ...
  2 weeks ago

• I’ll get my medical information elsewhere

  
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  If I were looking for authoritative information about prostate cancer, I wouldn’t look on Yahoo! Health . How could I trust the information on site that can’t even spell the condition? That’s bad, but not as bad as this from yahoo.com. Filed under: Misspellings Tagged: bad spelling , editing , ...
  2 weeks ago

• I spied, er, mistakes

  
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  The scribes at Yahoo! Movies are so sure of themselves, that when they misspell Spider-Man, they do it twice: Filed under: Hyphens , Misspellings , Punctuation Tagged: bad spelling , editing , hyphen , misspelled celebrities , misspelling , proofreading , spelling , spelling error , spelling ...
  2 weeks ago

• How many can you find?

  
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  How well do you remember the movie “Thelma and Louise”? Probably better than the writer for Yahoo! Shine , who is a tad confused: How many mistakes can you find in those two sentences? If you spotted the misspelled Michelle Pfeiffer, and you knew that Geena Davis played Thelma and Susan Sarandon played ...
  2 weeks ago

• Did you Google it?

  
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  This is soooo apropos, isn’t it? A caption about a movie about Google by a writer who obviously doesn’t use Google — or a spell-checker, editor, or proofreader. This bit of embarrassment is brought to you by Yahoo! Movies . Filed under: Misspellings Tagged: apropos , bad spelling , editing , ...
  2 weeks ago

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