What do you call …

a store for food and sorcery equipment? A gorcery store! At least that’s what I think this headline on Yahoo! Shine refers to:

But it’s not baseball

If this were baseball, batting .333 would be considered great. But this is Yahoo! Movies, and correctly spelling one name out of three is not great. Or even good:

Happy Feather’s Day!

This just tickles me:

You’d have to be plume crazy not to spot that gaffe on Yahoo! omg!.

Don’t let the facts stand in your way

Those folks at Yahoo! Shine certainly have their priorities straight: Don’t worry about the facts, just get the article pushed out. So, when you read this headline, you might think that the Duchess of Cambridge attended a coronation because, well, that’s what it says:

She didn’t. She attended a ceremony for the anniversary of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth.

Of course, it’s normal for us regular folks to notice that the Shine writers are also above using punctuation:

… except when they use it incorrectly:

Again with the coronation! Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, was not even born when the queen was crowned:

When she’s not screwing up facts and punctuation, she’s adding an extraneous word and using the wrong word:

But wait! There’s more! There’s the randomly capitalized duchess and the contraction it’s where the possessive pronoun its should be:

Just because the facts are wrong, the words are wrong, the punctuation is wrong, don’t judge.

Senior citizen files sues

Can’t you imagine what went through the Yahoo! Sports‘ “Prep Rally” writer’s head when trying to come up with a headline? “Should I say ‘senior citizen files suit’ or ‘senior citizen sues’? Oh, crap, I’ll use ‘em both”:

Any writer who thinks that’s OK would probably also think passersby was two words:

and that the possessive pronoun its requires an apostrophe:

The most surprising writing mistake

The most surprising thing about headlines on Yahoo! Shine is that they include typos and misspellings that would be found by any spell-checker — if the writer had bothered to use one:

Writings musts

One thing every writer should do: proofread. If you don’t you might end up producing a headline like this, found on Yahoo! Shine:

Neither verb not noun are technically ‘correct’

Whoa! How did the writer responsible for this on Yahoo! TV get that gig?

Of course, the writer meant: neither Bristol nor Joan is technically a wife.

News to confuse

You never know what to expect on Yahoo! News — except mistakes. You can be sure you’ll find a few every day — like this photo caption:

It showed up a little later looking like a headline:

At least it makes sense, which is more than I can say about this:

I think a homicidal kidnapper was transformed by a typo:

This is a tad confusing, isn’t it? Is there one bombing suspect or more than one?

The winner of the Scripps National Spelling Bee knew that knaidel isn’t a proper noun. Why didn’t Yahoo!’s editors?

I dream of typos

Let’s be charitable and call this misspelling on yahoo.com a typo: