You don’t need to be an expert in geography to write for Yahoo! Style. If you don’t know an English town from an English county, don’t worry — you could still making the writing team. The author of this gem did:
Berkshire is not a town outside of London; it is a county. St. Mark’s church, the site of Ms. Middleton’s wedding, is in Englefield, Berkshire. Englefield is the town outside of London.
If the current Mrs. Trump is like the first ladies to come before her, does that mean that in the future there will be first ladies who were first ladies in the past before the current first lady of the present?
I’m so confused. Why didn’t the Yahoo! Style writer just say, “Like the first ladies who came before her”? Or just, “Like the first ladies before her”? Or, “Like other first ladies” since all other first ladies came before the current Mrs. Trump? Unless she means the future first ladies from the past. That would involve a DeLorean and Doc Brown.
Was this written on the spur of the moment, without time to check the meaning of the word spur?
I can’t find a single meaning of spur that fits into this sentence from Yahoo! Style. Do you think the writer meant surge?
Ashley Graham is a model whose career is “on the up and up,” according to Yahoo! Shine:
I guess that means it’s an open and honest career, not one that’s on the rise or on a roll. I just have no idea what that really means, just as I am flummoxed about a career that “has not slowed its roll.” Her career is rolling unfettered, I guess, but most rolling is best done downhill, with the help of gravity.
Oh, we shouldn’t focus on little details like misused idioms and the meaning of words. Instead, let’s focus on the misspelled Glamour, which is a fashion magazine that one might expect a fashion editor to be familiar with. Sigh.
With all the talk about the election and Hillary Clinton’s breaking the glass ceiling by actually winning the popular vote, you may have also heard about suffragists. Now some people think that back in the early part of the last century Suffragists were American women who were advocating for the right to vote. Those people would be wrong, at least if you believe what you read on Yahoo! Style:
According to this genius of a writer, the suffragists weren’t protesting for the right to vote, they were protesting the right to vote.
When in doubt about forming the possessive of a word, just follow the example of this Yahoo! Style writer:
Does the apostrophe go before the S? After the S? Unsure? Put it before and after! Turn your dilemma into dilemma-ade!
What is a monochrome color palate? I guess it’s the roof of one’s mouth that is a single color, like green or fuchsia. Maybe the Yahoo! Style writer responsible for this will enlighten me:
A palate is the roof of the mouth or sense of taste. A color palette is a range or set of colors.
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.
I had a great laugh when I read this on Yahoo! Style:
The poor gal who wrote that was trying to be clever, but she only showed her ignorance. There is no Great Lawn at the White House. There is a North Lawn and a South Lawn, but no Great Lawn.
Don’t even try to understand or interpret this. Just enjoy the beauty of an unedited sentence:
Uh-oh. I neglected to circle back lace up evening shoes as a potential error. They looked like black shoes to me, but maybe they really do sport laces in the back.
Terribly Write 