The writer on the Yahoo! front page is not too swift when it comes to abbreviations. For some reason, the abbreviation for miles per hour gets capital letters:
According to the American Heritage Dictionary (which is available on Yahoo!), MPH stands for Master of Public Health.
There are people who would love to have a job where you can just coast. Where the quality of your work is unimportant. Where you can make mistakes day after day and still collect a paycheck. A job like writing for the Yahoo! front page:
The writer was obviously coasting with this headline, and didn’t bother to look up the spelling and capitalization of East Coast. (If you’re referring to the region of the U.S., it gets two caps.)
Maybe Louis B. Mayer’s father would have been more successful if he had a decent bicycle. It can’t be easy pedaling around on a two-wheeler made from the medals of war heroes:
Or maybe the idiot writer for Yahoo! Movies didn’t know that Mr. Mayer’s father peddled scrap metal.
A namesake is someone or something named after another. Pennsylvania was named after William Penn, not the other way around — in spite of what you’ll read on Yahoo! Homes:
Some writers use the English language in new, inventive, creative ways. And some make language mistakes in new, inventive, creative ways. And those writers work on the Yahoo! front page. Those are the people who came up with the brilliant idea of hyphenating Stone Age:
Next, they’ll be hyphenating names (Franklin-Delano-Roosevelt, anyone?) and book titles (like “To-Kill-a-Mockingbird”). Oh, those evil geniuses.
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