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 real weird news of the week

The self-proclaimed “Blog of the #1 News Site” from Yahoo! News presents its “Week of the Weird.” But what’s really weird is the indifference to journalistic standards, like accuracy, that the blog represents.

From the misuse of everyday for the correct every day:

To the misspelled feud:

And the horrifically misspelled Lisa and Teresa Golt:

This blog post is a mess. Whatever happened to taking “journalists” out to the woodshed for misspelling a subject’s name?

Recurring everyday error

I run across this error every day on Yahoo!:

If you mean “common, ordinary,” then use everyday. If you mean “every single day,” use every day.

Everyday error occurs every day

It’s a common, ordinary error; in fact, you might call it an everyday error:

Yahoo! Food confuses everyday with its two-word homophone.

Avoiding swine flu: Watch your hands

Offering startling new advice for avoiding swine flu, the writer of this blog post on Yahoo! Shine contends that your kids should be watching their hands:

I’m trying to imagine what they would be watching for, but it’s worth a try! While kids are watching hands, I recommend the writer watch for typos in her writing:

Typos appear every day on Yahoo!, and readers of TW are in fighting form when in comes to spotting them:

Everyday drink you need every day

And an error that appears nearly every day makes its way to yahoo.com:

Everyday errors may presage change every day

Every day there are so many grammatical, spelling, punctuation, and other errors floating around the Web that I wonder if I’m completely behind the times. The language is always evolving, and maybe that’s what accounts for these errors from Yahoo! Shine:

Am I so tragically out of touch with the digital age that I missed the introduction of “sound byte” into our everyday lexicon to mean “a brief statement”?

I readily admit to complete ignorance when it comes to the meaning of “heavily-based,” though I suspect the hyphen joining this alleged compound is wrong, just as it’s wrong to use a hyphen following an adverb ending in LY.

Everyday error is common

This Yahoo! Health blog doesn’t post content every day, but makes an everyday error:

Looking for an ordinary job?

Try Yahoo! Pipes:

Its everyday, commonplace, ordinary jobs are available every day.

Everyday error appears (almost) every day

A space can turn an ordinary, everyday word into the correct words that should be used every day. Take this example from Yahoo! Shine.