Who’s misused whose?

The writer of this snippet from Yahoo! omg! isn’t the only one who’s used the wrong word:

It’s not uncommon for folks to use the possessive pronoun whose when the contraction who’s is called for.

Revenge of the fallen word

Can you identify the word that’s fallen off this teaser from Yahoo! Movies?

Southern is more than a direction

When it refers to the southeastern part of the United States, Southern is a proper noun and should be capitalized. If you’re from the South, please forgive this slight from Yahoo! Shine:

Potpourri of errors about Paltrow

There’s a potpourri of errors in an article about Gwyneth Paltrow on Yahoo! Shine.  Using the wrong word is far different from using the right word. And the writer of this article uses the wrong word more than once:

There are times when different than is correct, but that isn’t one of them. And neither is this:

This might be be a minor redundancy:

At least this error provided a bit of levity:

Would you take advice from someone who doesn’t know the difference between track and tract? Or between  advice (which is a noun) and advise (which is a verb)?

Secondhand doesn’t have a hyphen:

and neither does postpartum:

I’m sure there are other errors that I’ve overlooked. Do you have any to add?

Hoarding homophonous errors

As a hoarder of homophonous errors, I’m adding this example from Yahoo! Shine to my collection:

Stabilization error

Let’s hope that the editors on Yahoo! Health can rein in the misspellings and stabilize the Web site so that it’s free of embarrassing errors like these:

I’ve run out of ideas

I’ve tried to figure out why the writer of this excerpt from Yahoo! TV‘s “Primetime in No Time” would use ran instead of run:

Alas, I have run out of ideas to explain the errors on Yahoo!.

Check it yourself

I can overlook the odd placement of a period in JCPenney. But I refuse to do the writer’s research as requested in a blog post on Yahoo! Shine:

The lesson here: Don’t include notes to yourself in your writing. Or, if you must, be sure to read everything you write before you publish it.