What’s wrong on the home page of Yahoo! News today? Just a few things (so far), like this incorrect capitalization of president:
That word gets a capital letter only when it precedes the name of the president; otherwise, it’s just a common noun. Someone mislead the editor.
The editor was also misled about the past tense of mislead:
Maybe the person who wrote that thought that mislead is like read: The past tense of read is read, so the past tense of mislead must be mislead. Wrong.
This isn’t quite the same wreck as that, but it isn’t shipwreck, but should be:




January 30, 2012 at 4:25 pm
And the beat goes on!
January 30, 2012 at 5:00 pm
Oh, yeah. Every day.