Whose mistake is this?

It’s the writer for Yahoo! Movies who’s confused about the correct word to use here:

The contraction who’s is short for who is or who has. The possessive pronoun is whose. And that’s the word the writer should have used.

Who’s responsible for this?

Who’s responsible for this caption on Yahoo! Shine? Who’s made a mistake? Whose mistake is it?

Whoever wrote that doesn’t know that who’s is a contraction for who is or who has.

Something doesn’t feel right

Dear Yahoo! Shine writer,

Just dropping by to say that publishing this article was way too quick. You should have proofread it to avoid embarrassing yourself with gaffes like this:

You must be a writer whose brand of writing doesn’t distinguish between homonyms. But when I read your articles, something just doesn’t feel right:

Maybe it’s the missing punctuation. For goodness’ sake, can’t you learn to include an apostrophe once in a while?

Thank you for listening.

Laura

Asses your writing

Just skip over the extra word here on Yahoo! Shine and head right on down to the best typo of the month:

You can stop reading right now, because the rest of the grammatical errors just can’t compare with that.

If you’re still with me, you’ll notice that the writer knew she needed a hyphen somewhere, but couldn’t figure out where:

She should have kept homework whole (it’s not hyphenated) and added the hyphen here: homework-free.

I think the writer, whose study of the English language was clearly insufficient, could use a refresher course on common homophonous errors:

Who’s is a contraction for who is or who has. The possessive of who is whose, which is what she should have used.

Whose mistake is that?

Who’s responsible for this homophonic error on Yahoo! omg!?

Who’s responsible for this everyday error?

Every day, there’s a homophonic error on Yahoo!. This time, it’s on Yahoo! TV‘s “Primetime in No Time”:

Whose error is it? Probably the person who made this error in the same article: 

Who’s responsible for this?

Whose mistake is this? It’s probably a mistake from an editor for Yahoo! Movies who doesn’t know the difference between the contraction who’s (which means “who is” or “who has”) and whose (which the possessive form of who):

Whose mistake is this?

Who’s responsible for this goof on Yahoo! omg!?

Whose is the possessive of who. The person whose mistake this is should have used the contraction who’s.

This is bananas!

This article about Banana Republic and other retail chains is just bananas. It’s on Yahoo! Shine and it features not a few errors, like a missing word and a misspelled khaki. But the worst of the bunch is the peels from a jeep that allegedly covered the floors of the retailer’s old stores:

The writer is definitely one whose writing needs the assistance of a competent editor — someone who knows the difference between the possessive pronoun whose and the contraction who’s:

And now for something completely different — brick-a-brack:

How does a professional writer not know how to spell bric-a-brac? That’s just bananas!

Whose mistakes are these?

Whose mistakes appear on Yahoo! News‘ new ”The Cutline” blog?

This one is attributable to the writer, who failed the who’s/whose test:

But did the writer get these words wrong or does the fault lie with the letter he’s quoting?

If you guessed that the words in the original letter were correct (they are to produce and product), you’re right. It’s the “The Cutline” journalist who’s wrong.