This may be the first of many mistakes of this kind we see on Yahoo!. Today, January 1, 2015, it appeared on Yahoo! Style:
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Is this the first of many?
January 1, 2015 — Laura
Posted in Errors of Fact. Tags: Dora Fung, editing, factual error, factual errors, proofreading, Yahoo!, Yahoo! Style. Leave a Comment »
It’s New Year’s Day
January 1, 2015 — LauraIt’s close to being New Year’s Day on the Yahoo! front page, but someone forgot a little curvy character:
Posted in Apostrophes, Punctuation. Tags: apostrophe, editing, New Year's Day, proofreading, Punctuation, punctuation errors, Yahoo!, Yahoo! front page. Leave a Comment »
Need a hangover cure?
January 1, 2015 — LauraLooking for a cure for your New Year’s Eve hangover? Yahoo! Style has some ideas, including drinking something called Pedialite:
Ya’ gotta wonder if it’s anything like Pedialyte, which appears right next to that paragraph:
Posted in Misspellings. Tags: bad spelling, editing, incorrect spelling, misspelling, proofreading, spelling, Yahoo!, Yahoo! Style. Leave a Comment »
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