Here’s a wise word of wisdom for ya’

Here’s a word of wisdom for the Yahoo! Style editor: Consult a dictionary about the meaning of the words you use. Perhaps then you’d learn that “wise words” are the only kind that come with wisdom:

You couldn’t have just said “wise words” or “words of wisdom” or just “wisdom”? Apparently not.

And here’s another bit of wisdom for ya’: Take some pride in your writing and try to spell the name of your subject correctly. She’s Lea Michele. Spelling her name wrong is worse than “wise words of wisdom.”

That’s quite a turtleneck!

You just gotta wonder what was going through the mind of the Yahoo! Style writer who contributed this description to the picture just below it:

I have no idea what a “suit dress” is, but I suspect the writer doesn’t either. I don’t know what color the writer’s lemonade is, but mine is definitely NOT blue and gold. And that turtleneck that Beyoncé is allegedly sporting has a very realistic image of a partial breast on it. Just what picture was she looking at when she wrote that?

Who you callin’ a donkey?

This writer for Yahoo! Style is likely one of those city slicker gals who doesn’t have a heap of experience with animals. She wrote this:

about this:

Well, I’m no expert, but that looks like a pony or miniature horse.

Kim Kardashian and deadly fame

If you’re unfamiliar with French, as this Yahoo! Style writer appears to be, perhaps you should avoid certain words and phrases, like femme fatale:

What month would you select?

What month would you select in the Dylann Roof trial? According to yahoo.com, a July selection begins in the trial.

But what is the selection for? Personally, I’d prefer to see a jury selection start now for Mr. Roof’s trial.

What color is a pallet?

From Yahoo! Style:

This is a pallet:

A set or range of colors is a palette.

Michael Phelps is not that big

At 6′ 4″ Michael Phelps is a big guy, but not big enough to carry the entire United States, despite what you may read on yahoo.com:

Truth is, he’ll be carrying the U.S. flag in the opening ceremony at the Olympics in Rio, not the U.S. and not into Rio.

Dancing wedding cake

How do you frost a wedding cake with merengue? We’ll have to ask the Yahoo! Style writer:

Do you think she confused merengue (which is a spicy Latin American dance) with meringue (which is whipped egg whites)?

Not trying way too hard

The news editor for Yahoo! Style isn’t trying too hard to avoid making homophonic errors:

In all my years writing this blog, this is the first time I’ve seen an “editor” (or anyone else employed by Yahoo!) mistake vile for vial. Of course, vial‘s not a word that used a lot so that could explain the paucity of appearances.

Put down the eggnog

The editors at yahoo.com must have been hitting the bourbon-laced eggnog pretty hard this weekend. That’s about the only explanation I have for this bit of nonsense disguised as a sentence:

What the heck does that mean? Did the editor mean: Roethlisberger is just one of a few star signal-callers who fall short of their normal standards? That would mean the writer left out at least one word and couldn’t match a verb to its subject and a pronoun to its antecedent. Given yahoo.com’s standards, that’s entirely possible.

It’s also possible the editor meant: Roethlisberger is just one star signal-caller who falls short of his normal standards. That would mean the writer included a few totally extraneous words and used a plural when a singular signal-caller would be correct.

I’m so confused. But not as confused as those editors at Yahoo!. I think I’ll lay off the eggnog for a while.