A peek at the peak of errors could pique your ire

A quick peek at the peak of all homophonic errors on Yahoo! Shine could pique your editorial ire:

The worst trend in writing

Reporting on celebrity fashion trends requires absolutely no knowledge of celebrities or designers. Or at least if you write for Yahoo! Shine, knowing how to spell the names of celebrities and designers is purely optional. In fact, knowing how to spell anything is purely optional. Case in point: Shine’s feature “The Thread.”

The writer doesn’t bother spelling Angie Harmon’s name correctly:

A misplaced apostrophe is a relatively minor offense when it happens once:

But when it happens again, it’s bound to rile some readers:

Also? Using that to refer to real human beings isn’t considered wrong, just “impolite.” Omitting any kind of punctuation around a movie title (like “Twilight”) isn’t impolite; it’s just wrong.

Again ignoring the journalistic convention of correct spelling, the writer hacks up Leighton Meester. (Or maybe I should say, the hack hacks it up):

The pronoun them has no visible antecedent and using who’s instead of whose is the kind of mistake you might expect from a fourth grader.

If you’ve read this far, you shouldn’t be surprised by a missing word and a misspelling of Claire’s:

Let’s hope this is just a typo and that Amanda Peet wasn’t actually wearing Mischa Barton:

I’m not the only one who cares about good writing, you know. I think the Olsen twins might care about how their name is spelled:

Shoes like platforms are usually sold in pairs:

Betsey Johnson is one designer whose name doesn’t require spelling accuracy. Same goes for celeb Taylor Momsen:

As for the funky characters that appear to be two hyphens? God knows what that is supposed to be, though a period or semicolon would be correct.

No surprise here. Another punctuation problem: Lindsay Lohan needs an apostrophe and an S:

Is this a new trend in writing on Yahoo!? Or just an especially egregious example of a longstanding acceptance of horrible writing?

‘Top Chef’ takes the cake

This synopsis of tonight’s “Top Chef” on Yahoo! TV takes the cake:

Though there’s nothing grammatically wrong with using both remaining and left in the same sentence, one of them would have been sufficient. (When you’re writing for the short attention span of Web readers, fewer words are always better.) But there’s a mistake in the use of its, which should be the contraction it’s. And the use of combines might politely be called a typo.

This is so different from good

This isn’t the worst you’ll read on the Web. It’s not even the worst you’ll read on Yahoo!. But these excerpts from Yahoo! TV’s ”Daytime in No Time” aren’t good.

The errors start with Velcro, which is a trademark that requires a capital letter:

Ditto for Kitty Litter:

There’s the missing hyphen in high-powered (it’s a compound adjective) and the incorrectly capitalized real estate (it’s not a proper noun).

The errors are no different from the run-of-the-mill goofs you’ll find every day on Yahoo!:

And that’s not good.

The most neglected contraction

It’s the most neglected contraction on Yahoo!. And it appears yet again on Yahoo! Shine without its apostrophe:

I can’t believe that a professional writer doesn’t know the difference between its and it’s, just as I can’t believe the writer thinks that prom is a proper noun:

I’d rather believe that these are just two careless errors.

Why can’t you starve in the desert?

Why can’t you starve in the desert? Because of all the sandwiches there! Ha-ha. Deserts may provide yummy sandwiches, but I prefer desserts to deserts.

So, my question to you is: Was the writer for Yahoo! Shine thinking of the Sahara or the Gobi?

Take a peek

Take a peek at this homophonous error from Yahoo! Autos:

I just don’t understand how this mistake keeps happening on Yahoo!. Doesn’t Yahoo! have editors who could take a peek at what’s been written on their site? Apparently not.

At least its peak is right

At least the writer of Yahoo! TV’s ”Primetime in No Time” spelled peak correctly, although it’s is the wrong homophone here:

Sneaking up a hill

Sneak a peek at this. Maybe the writer of “Daytime in No Time” on Yahoo! TV was thinking about sneaking up a mountain or something:

Slippery slop

There’s an amazing article on Yahoo! Shine. Amazing in the variety and number of sloppy errors one writer can make and inflict on the public. From the overly punctuated quotations here:

and here:

to the unnecessary and duplicated words here:

There’s a mysterious expression that defies explanation:

And the use of a zero instead of the letter O:

WTF? How does the writer not see this little bit of HTML when proofreading?

Silly me. Clearly the writer doesn’t proofread, because if she did, she’d notice that this is the wrong word:

Injecting a little humor, the writer continues with the slop:

Not that this is the worst error ever, but a missing article here makes the whole sentence a tad awkward:

Poor Dad. He’s deserving of a capital letter here:

Humor again! I love it! The writer was hoarding the hilarious homophonous errors, but is sharing them with the reader:

This slippery slop may just get the writer a jump-start on reconsidering her career choice: