It’s one of the 100 most frequently misspelled words, so maybe we should expect to see it misspelled in a headline on Yahoo!. This time it’s in Yahoo! Sports‘ “Prep Rally”:
You’d think that the writer or editor or proofreader would know that the word can accommodate one more M.
Even a 5-year-old would know that there’s a hyphen missing from this caption on Yahoo! Shine:
This is the first paragraph of an article from Yahoo! News‘ “The Lookout”:
Why would anyone bother to read any more?
The principal (or most important) principle (or basic rule) of writing is to know something about the language you’re writing in. The writer for Yahoo! Shine illustrates one possible outcome if you dare to violate that principle:
When faced with having to choose between or and nor, the writer for Yahoo! Sports‘ “Prep Rally” picked the wrong word:
The pairs neither…nor and either… or are correlative conjunctions. Don’t mix ‘em up.
Some words are just too difficult to spell — even for professional writers and editors. One of those words is Spanish, which the folks at Yahoo! News just can’t master:
It was not too long ago that they insisted it was Spainish. And dang, they’re at it again!
Did you read this on yahoo.com?
Did you notice that the writer tried to tell us that some teen’s moves are like some NBA stars — not like NBA stars’ moves, but like the actual athletes themselves? And did you notice that the writer didn’t know that moves is plural and mimics, the verb, isn’t?
Am I the only one who gets depressed reading stuff like this?
It’s not post partum or post-partum. It’s postpartum. One word. How sad is it that the Yahoo! Shine editor didn’t even bother to look up the spelling?
Is it just me or does it seem that the writers for Yahoo! are getting lazier? They can’t even bother to proofread a little sentence. If they had, I’m pretty sure they would have noticed this mangled Mariano Rivera:
The editors for the Yahoo! front page will probably be taking some flak for using a variant spelling of flak:
A flack is a press agent or publicist; flak is criticism or opposition.
