Two weeks ago, Bob Dylan was named the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Wonders of wonders, he’s also been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize:
Yahoo! Celebrity seems to have the exclusive details on this amazing accomplishment. Another amazing accomplishment? That this headline can go unnoticed and uncorrected by one of the world’s largest Internet companies.
Someone violated English on yahoo.com with this nasty spelling:
Do you find this as funny as I do?
I read this on Yahoo! Style and I was practically rolling in the aisles, as they say. (At least those of us familiar with the common idiom would say.)
Somebody over at yahoo.com must love hyphens enough to throw them around like rice at a wedding:
It’s a well-known rule that a hyphen can join two words to form a compound modifier before a noun. But if one of those words is actually a name or other proper noun, don’t stuff a hyphen in it. So, the following are all correct: a World Series-starved team, a Donald Trump-inspired wig, a Hillary Clinton-signed book.
I never got past this first sentence in an article on Yahoo! Finance:
Can you really trust a writer who thinks there was a time when the only job a woman could get was as a secretary? I don’t think so.
Hillary Clinton is the Democratic nominee for the presidency, but you wouldn’t know it if you read this on Yahoo! Style:
As a common noun, democratic refers to a democracy or people in general. But if you’re referring to the political party in the U.S., it’s Democratic, with a big D.
Speaking of a big D, that’s the grade I’d give this writer for coming up with Clintons’s. I’d be appalled if I hadn’t seen that error so often on Yahoo!. It seems Yahoo! writers (and their editors, if they have them) don’t know that the plural of Clinton is Clintons and the possessive of Clintons is Clintons‘.
Readers of yahoo.com have been put through the wringer trying to decipher this expression:
A wringer is the part of an old-timey washing machine that squeezed the water out of laundry:
It doesn’t take a vivid imagination to visualize being put through a wringer. I have no idea what the writer thought “through the ringer” could possibly mean.
The home page of Yahoo! Celebrity is not a good place to misspell Joe Giudice’s name:
In an article about racial inequity in public schools, one Yahoo! Style writer claims that students of color have a lower dropout rate than other students:
Isn’t that a good thing? Yes, it would be if it were accurate. The fact-challenged writer was paraphrasing an article that stated that high school graduation rates are lower for minority students. That means that dropout rates are higher, not lower.
I think this writer needs to go back to school and get that GED.
If well-educated editors overlooked this error on Yahoo! Style, their friends’ and families’ faces would fall to the floor:
I’m assuming that the friends and families (there’s probably more than one family involved) have separated faces, so there needs to be an apostrophe after the S on both friends’ and families’.
Terribly Write 