Why did I continue to read this article from Yahoo! Sports‘ “Prep Rally” when the first sentence didn’t even make sense?
That should have been warning enough that I should stop reading posthaste:
Did I stop? No. When faced with such a pretentious misspelling, I was sure I’d come across additional fodder for Terribly Write. And I was terribly right, although this is a relatively minor goof that any spell-checker would have caught — if Yahoo! writers knew how to use a spell-checker:
February 18, 2013 at 11:34 am
Good lord. Did you read the second sentence? I didn’t know schools had plural nouns for nicknames. Their sports teams might.