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A spell-checker is great for finding some egregious spelling errors, but it wouldn’t find every mistake. For example, it won’t find two words that really should be combined into one word. Even if the writers and editors for Yahoo! Shine used a spell-checker (and they clearly don’t), this mistake would not have been flagged:
Spell-checkers are great; but they’re not foolproof.
At least one person at Yahoo! News doesn’t understand that numbers consisting of two words (like forty-eight), require a hyphen
There really ought to be a class for the writers who work on the Yahoo! front page that teaches them how to use a dictionary. Knowing how to look up a word (just to confirm it actually is a word) is not foolproof, but it might help eliminate embarrassments like this:
Terribly Write