The real shocker

I was flipping through a slide show on Yahoo! Shine about favorite Thanksgiving fare. It wasn’t until I had seen several photos that I realized that I was looking at the favorite holiday foods of editors. Yes, and not just any editors, but editors who work for Yahoo! Shine.

I was shocked, shocked I tell you! Yahoo! Shine has editors — and not just one editor, but multiple editors. Unfortunately, none of them is competent enough to know where to place an apostrophe in a plural possessive. Here’s a hint: It goes after the S.

Tragic fate for the English language

Language abuse and misspellings have reached a catastrophic rate on the Yahoo! front page:

The ability to match a plural subject with an equally plural verb seems to have eluded the editors on yahoo.com.