Let there be light!

Do you know the nickname of Paris? I bet you think you do. And I bet the writer for Yahoo! Celebrity who penned this, thought she did, too:

She was so sure that Paris was the “City of Lights” that she didn’t bother to Google it. I wish she had. She would have discovered that Paris is the “City of Light.” That’s quite a bit different, isn’t it?

Earlier this week an equally vacuous article about Ms. Kardashian, written by someone who no doubt trusted her memory, again misidentified Paris:

And the writer for Yahoo! Movies also trusted his knowledge of all things Paris, too:

How long would it have taken any of them to verify “City of Lights”? Ten seconds? And if they had dug a little deeper, they might learn that the city most often referred to as the “City of Lights” is Los Angeles.

Is the hyphen key broken?

Is the hyphen key broken on the keyboards at Yahoo! Sports? That might explain the missing character in mix-up:

Even if the key were broken, the writer could have pounded out mixup, which is acceptable alternative to mix-up, according to the American Heritage Dictionary.

Don’t go lookin’ for hyphens in headlines on Yahoo! News, either. They’re all out:

Subject-matter experts need not apply

Looking for a writing gig? Know absolutely nothing about pop music? No problem! You don’t need to know Keith Urban from Keither Urban at Yahoo! Music:

Hey, don’t worry if you’ve never heard of Iggy Azalea — neither has the person who wrote this:

You don’t need to know music to write for Yahoo! Music.

No, the rain won’t damper Kim and Kanye’s wedding

You don’t need a crystal ball or even a weather map to answer this question on Yahoo! Celebrity:

The rain won’t damper anything because damper is not a verb. It is a noun. Rain might dampen the wedding or it might put a damper on the wedding. But damper the wedding? Not so much.