Just yesterday I posted a few easy-to-spot errors on the home page of Yahoo!’s site for women, Shine. Today, they’re back on Yahoo! Shine in a slightly different form, but with those embarrassing goofs intact.
There’s the wrong title of Madonna’s video, which is actually “Girl Gone Wild”:
and the writer’s inability to distinguish one woman from many:
I guess this just proves that the original errors weren’t mere typos. Sigh.
The three goofs on the home page of Yahoo! Shine are easy to spot. What’s hard is imagining how they got made in the first place. And then how they got past those eagle-eyed editors and proofreaders.
Goof #1: Failing to capitalize Easter:
Goof #2: Getting the name of the video wrong. It’s “Girl Gone Wild”:
Goof #3: Uh, no. The singular is woman and the possessive is woman’s. And this is wrong, wrong, wrong:
So, who’s at fault here? The person who wrote these gaffes or the person who should have spotted them? Or the management at Yahoo! who don’t care?
Or all of the above?
When I first saw the use of woman instead of women on Yahoo! Shine, I was willing to consider it a careless typo. But after seeing it two more times on the same site, I now think otherwise. I think the writer doesn’t know the difference between the singular and plural of this noun.
Here it is again on Yahoo! Shine:
and again:
Terribly Write 