A typo isn’t unusual on yahoo.com, and generally a typo doesn’t merit attention. But when it kicks off a letter in a word critical to the readers’ comprehension, a typo is serious mistake:
The lesson for all of us: Don’t rely solely on a spell-checker to do your proofreading.
Is there a shortage of apostrophes at Yahoo Lifestyle? Or is it just a shortage of editors who know how to use them? Here’s a headline and teaser that has me questioning if Yahoo hires only apostrophe- and spelling-impaired editors:
OK. So that was just a careless mistake (or two or three). The actual article must be better, right? Wrong. Those folks at Yahoo are still apostrophe-impaired, unable to put them in two places in one sentence:
Let’s take the charitable view that this is just a typo and not the result of a writer’s unfamiliarity with a common expression like “fill it up”:
I’d overlook this mistake (just like the writer overlooked the word to before walk), if it were the only goof, but alas, it’s not:
Another apostrophe goes missing here, but maybe it’s just the result of a malfunctioning keyboard:
But, wait! There’s more! After I wrote this post, the headline and teaser were corrected. Somewhat:
It looks like the editors noticed the missing apostrophe and the typo. Good job! Maybe next time they’ll learn to use a spell-checker and proofread before publishing. If not, I may just harass them some more.
This headline on Yahoo Sports speaks volumes about the proofreading skills of its editors:
To paraphrase the occupant of the Oval Office, they consult themselves because they have “a very good brain.” Except it should be Brian.
If you think readers don’t care about typos, think again. Here’s a little typo (in a headline, no less!) from yahoo.com:
Did readers notice? Of course they did. And they had something to say about the error:
This is probably a common typo involving the Texas city of Fort Worth. But the fact that it appears on one of the most visited pages on the Internet — yahoo.com — makes it a real embarrassment:
Readers could be pleading with the editors at Yahoo Lifestyle to employ a proofreader, or at least a spell-checker:
It must have been a stressful weekend over at the editor’s desk at yahoo.com. Maybe that’s why the editors missed the missing apostrophe here:
Or failed to recognize that schoolyard is one word:
Someone should demand to know why a typo like this slipped through the spell-checker:
(Oh, yeah. I forgot. Yahoo editors don’t use spell-checkers. Or proofreaders.)
No spell-checker would have caught this perfectly spelled bit of nonsense:
I have no idea what that was supposed to be. Can anyone translate it for me?
Maybe it’s just a typo to the editors at Yahoo News, but to the readers it’s a red flag:
Can you trust a source that doesn’t require proofreading on its home page and that doesn’t even use a spell-checker?
Are charges that Yahoo! News editors are careless just trumped up charges?
Maybe it’s only a typo and the editor really meant trumped. Or Trump’s.
From the home page Yahoo! News, the world’s most trusted news source:
Terribly Write 