If you make three boneheaded errors at the beginning of a sentence, perhaps you should stop writing and correct your mistakes, rather than continue with the sentence.
But the writer for Yahoo! News‘ “The Sideshow” has another idea: He’s happy to make do with the limited skills he has. He doesn’t seem to mind that New Haven got shortchanged, that due isn’t what the police made, and that a semicolon isn’t a substitute for a comma.
It’s time for the Cadillac CTS-V to pay up. This make is due, according to Yahoo! Autos:
Now, if the writer had meant “To manage to get along with the means available,” then he should have written “makes do.”
Honey, I think you need to go lie down. You’re due for a nap. I know that writing for the Yahoo! front page is tiring, so go get some rest. They’ll just have to make do without you:
Due to the writer’s inability to tell the correct word from a word that sounds like it, this excerpt from Yahoo! TV‘s “Daytime in No Time” is actually quite amusing:
For those needing additional explanation (I’m looking at you, Yahoo! writers and editors), the correct expression is due to the fact and the correct word is fiancé (which is a male).
Oh, lordie. Why are some writers allowed out in public without adult supervision? Someone over at Yahoo! Shine needs to watch this writer and exercise a little oversight because readers of her blog posts are recipients of some of the most egregious errors in Webdom.
How difficult is it to run spell-check or to verify the spelling of Whoopi Goldberg?
The relatively minor offense of omitting the hyphen in ’80s-inspired
is offset due to a horrendous homophone error:
Hallelujah! There’s only one misspelling here:
Good job! But next time, try hyphenating the compound adjective high-end:
