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?
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.
It’s a common, ordinary error; in fact, you might call it an everyday error:
Yahoo! Food confuses everyday with its two-word homophone.
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:
And an error that appears nearly every day makes its way to yahoo.com:
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.
This Yahoo! Health blog doesn’t post content every day, but makes an everyday error:
A space can turn an ordinary, everyday word into the correct words that should be used every day. Take this example from Yahoo! Shine.
MyBlogLog, a Yahoo! service, has a blog. The MyBlogLog Blog logs more than its share of typos and other errors, like this one:
Everyday means ordinary or commonplace. What the writer intended is every day (two words) — meaning each and every day.
