Remember the saying “Time wounds all heels”? When my friends and I were in our teens, we used to think it has hilarious and a genius takeoff on the saying “Time heals all wounds.” We knew the difference between heals and heels, which is more than I can say for the staff at Yahoo! Finance:
What does it take to be an assistant editor for Yahoo! Style? Do you have to know about style? I don’t think so. Do you have to know English. Not really. Here’s why I say that:
The writer (who is an assistant editor) has no idea what a checkered pattern is. She has confused it with a plaid, which is what Ms. Dello Russo was wearing:
As for her “patent leather heals”? I have no idea what was healed by patent leather. Perhaps the writer, who may be still learning her craft (as well as her subject matter) meant heels.
Ya know how you’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover? Well, there’s a writer on Yahoo! Shine who’s ignored that advice and is judging celebrity-authored tomes by their cover. And I’m here to judge the writer by her — wait for it — writing. But I have no intention of being balanced. This all about the ghastly grammar, horrific homophones, and poor punctuation.
Let’s look at this excerpt, where the writer confuses a contraction with a possessive pronoun:
That is not good.
It sure looks like the writer is unfamiliar with the function of the comma. Seems that it slipped from its correct location down to separate a subject from a verb. Heal? Really? Is that the part of the stiletto closest to the shoe’s soul?
There’s a comma missing here and a misspelled Anne Geddes:
I can almost understand the missing comma and the misplaced period (because this writer is punctuation-challenged), but misspelling Bret Michaels?
It’s kinda obvious how the singer and “Celebrity Apprentice” winner spells his name. The picture above the caption might be a clue:
What’s with the missing apostrophe in the contraction and the missing hyphen in this two-goof sentence?
Anyone could misspell Barbra Streisand’s name:
although the photo accompanying the caption is a hint as to the correct spelling:
So, you be the judge now. How bad is this?
I am not head over heels in love with clichés, but this one from Yahoo! Shine put a smile on my face:
One Broadway show has closed soon after the closing of another, according to the Yahoo! Broadway blog:
At least that’s what I think he means. The cure to this sentence is not a healing, but heels.
Terribly Write 