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  • It’s practically expected


    Terribly WriteAuthority Authority: 119
    A typo on the Yahoo! front page ? It happens every day: A grammatical error on yahoo.com?  It’s not unusual to find that a Yahoo! editor doesn’t know that the possessive of actress is actress’s: Do you think the editor may be facing disciplinary action for a missing word here? Nah. This ...
    2 days ago
  • More madness from yahoo.com


    Terribly WriteAuthority Authority: 119
    A simple typo might be forgivable, except when it appears on the Yahoo! front page , the busiest page on the Web: Not so forgivable? This mismatched subject and verb: Filed under: Misspellings , Subject-Verb Agreement , Verbs Tagged: bad grammar , grammar , grammar errors , grammar mistakes , ...
    1 week ago
  • Typos 101: Ten Common Word Usage Mistakes


    Creative RamblingsAuthority Authority: 460
    A good writer is someone who is able to use more than metaphors and vivid imagery to grasp readers’ fancy. They write properly with no typos. While erring is human, you have to show your mastery of the language in which you write. One of my pet peeves is typographical errors. Sometimes, I get up
    1 week ago
  • Nice proofreading job!


    Terribly WriteAuthority Authority: 119
    Ya just gotta give props to the person who proofread this headline on Yahoo! News : Filed under: Misspellings Tagged: editing , journalism , misspelling , proofreading , typo , typos , writing , Yahoo! , Yahoo! News
    1 week ago
  • Not a good place for this


    Terribly WriteAuthority Authority: 119
    A headline is not a good place to make a typo. Tell that to the person on Yahoo! News ‘ “The Sideshow” who’s responsible for this: Filed under: Wrong words Tagged: The Sideshow , The Upshot , typo , typos , wrong word , Yahoo! , Yahoo! News
    1 week ago
  • Wordless Wednesday (Across the Boarder (?) Edition)


    momforlifeAuthority Authority: 102
    Things that make Big Green Pen see Red ! include waking up to this: Props to AOL, though, for fixing the error within hours! Its nice to know they care.
    2 weeks ago
  • Can you figure this out?


    Terribly WriteAuthority Authority: 119
    Holy moly! I never knew that IVF treatments can cost millions of dollars. Millions! It must be so because I read it on Yahoo! Shine : I would have thought that the costs could add up to five figures, but I was wrong. I was also wrong when I thought that some married men were looking for discreet one-night ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Nice proofreading job


    Terribly WriteAuthority Authority: 119
    How long did the reporter or his editor take to proofread this brilliant piece of redundancy from Yahoo! News ‘ “The Sideshow”? I’d guess it was less than a nanosecond. Much less. OK, if no one at Yahoo! News was going to proofread this article, couldn’t someone at least run a little spell-checker? ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Puntuation:


    Chasing SunsetsAuthority Authority: 123
    What occurs when one demonstrates the intensity of one’s feelings about a topic by drop-kicking the nearest person who disagrees.
    2 weeks ago
  • Everetime I see somebody spell a word wrong…


    MakeUseOfAuthority Authority: 643
    Everetime I see somebody spell a word wrong… is a post from: MakeUseOf Geeky Fun
    2 weeks ago
  • Errata in "The Hallway"


    Poetics and RuminationsAuthority Authority: 102
      My old friend, the poet X. J. Kennedy, and I have been discussing typographical errors lately — these are our stories: Dear Lew, As you and I well know by now, no matter how careful the proofreading, some godam snafus will always slip through.  Last year Johns Hopkins brought out a translation Id done ...
    2 weeks ago
  • What’s wrong with the the?


    Terribly WriteAuthority Authority: 119
    What’s more embarrassing that a typo? Making on the Web where it can be seen by millions of people, like the Yahoo! front page : Apparently that’s a common typo, because it appears in Yahoo! News ‘ “The Cutline”: and “The Ticket”: I just don’t understand why a spell-checker didn’t ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Needing a follow-up


    Terribly WriteAuthority Authority: 119
    After publishing your gems on the Web, you should follow up with a second proofreading.  That kind of follow-up can help avoid the embarrassing mistakes made on the home page of Yahoo! Music : Follow up is a verb. The noun is follow-up, the preferred spelling, although followup is acceptable. Filed ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Stephen Dunn, ”The Kiss”


    I'll tumble 4 ya.Authority Authority: 133
    She pressed her lips to mind.                                — A typo How many years I must have yearned for someone’s lips against mind. Pheromones, newly born, were floating between us. There was hardly any air. She kissed me again, reaching that place that sends messages to toes and ...
    2 weeks ago
  • "You could re-read a blog post 5 times and on the 6th read you’ll still find a typo."


    M.E. ExposedAuthority Authority: 113
    “You could re-read a blog post 5 times and on the 6th read you’ll still find a typo.” - M.E.
    3 weeks ago
  • Gee. In a hurry much?


    Terribly WriteAuthority Authority: 119
    Gee, do you think the writer for Yahoo! Music  was in a bit of a hurry to ge this news out? Filed under: Misspellings Tagged: editing , misspelling , proofreading , typo , typos , writing , Yahoo!
    3 weeks ago

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