A wayward hyphen tells a tale of ignorance and arrogance:
The writer for the Yahoo! front page must have been so confident of their ability to spell that they didn’t bother to check to see if telltale includes a hyphen. It doesn’t. If you think a word needs a hyphen, check with a dictionary before you publish your pearls and before a blogger does your job for you.
Is there anyone in the world who doesn’t know that Big Mac is the name of a burger that deserves two big letters? Yeah, the writer for Yahoo! Shine:
The only suspect word on the Yahoo! front page is mugshot:
According to the American Heritage Dictionary, it’s two words.
This bit of the illogical evolved from the keyboard of a Yahoo! News‘ “Who Knew” writer:
Yachting is an activity, a sport. It did not evolve into boats of any kind. Yachts, however, evolved into luxury mega boats.
I’ve heard of a festival for the canned meat known as Spam. But who would want to celebrate unsolicited email? According to the Yahoo! front page, somebody does:
Terribly Write 