It get’s an apostrophe

If it ends in an S, it gets an apostrophe. That seems to be the philosophy of punctuation over at Yahoo! Makers:

Painting with Japanese food

I love tempura, but I’ve never painted with it. But that’s what the genius writer at Yahoo! DIY recommends:

I’m trying to imagine taking this tempura and dipping it in a soy-ginger sauce and smearing it on canvas:

And if I needed a little green for my painting, I’d dip the shrimp in a little wasabi sauce! Yum! And if I run out of tempura, I could use this paint:

Subject-matter experts need not apply

Shouldn’t it be a requirement that a food writer know something about the basic tools and appliances of cooking? Not at Yahoo! Food, where writers aren’t required to know what an oven is:

That’s not an oven burner roasting the corn. It’s the burner of a range, a stove,  or maybe a cooktop. An oven burner is inside an oven:

Graphic: http://www.appliance411.com

Arriving at the wrong preposition

To someone just learning English, prepositions can be difficult to master. Those people should not be reading Yahoo! Sports, where writers often arrive at the wrong word:

Johnny Manziel arrived at camp. He may have arrived in style. But he didn’t arrive to anything.

Let’s hope the ceilings are high

Any capitol would need high ceilings to accommodate a little NBA action.

The nation’s capitol is the United States Capitol. It’s a building on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., which is the nation’s capital.  The capital is far more likely to be the site of an NBA game, and not the building that’s alleged on Yahoo! Sports.

How many people were infected?

Geez, I can’t imagine how many people suffered from this staff infection, but it must have been a lot because it’s mentioned on Yahoo! Sports:

The only thing worse would be a staff with a staph infection.

How does he get his glove on?

If you’ve got the world around your finger, can you put on boxing gloves? And what the hell is the world doing around your finger?

You can have the world wrapped around your little finger. You can have the world on a string and the string around your finger. Not satisfied with those old metaphors, the geniuses at Yahoo! Sports have made up their own. I doubt that it’ll catch on.

Frederick’s of Hollywood discount

The writer for Yahoo! Shopping has discounted Frederick’s of Hollywood with this spelling:

Third-grade vocabulary optional

If your vocabulary is stuck back in the third grade, you, too, could write for Yahoo! News‘ “The Lookout.” This newsy feature doesn’t require that you be able to distinguish between area and length — or land and sea:

An acre is a measure of area, not length. Nothing can be 34 acres long, but it might be 34 acres or have an area of 34 acres or cover 34 acres or be a 34-acre island.

The island doesn’t lie in the German North Sea coast because a coast is land next to a sea and that would mean the island is surrounded by land, meaning it’s not an island. It might be off the North Sea coast of Germany or off Germany’s North Sea coast.

Moving sounds

Can we all agree that to form the plural of a proper noun ending in Y, you just add an S? So, the plural of Molly is Mollys, the plural of Bobby is Bobbys and the plural of Furby is Furbys, right? Great, then we can move right past the first error here from Yahoo! Shopping and get to the fun part:

I’ve been waiting for a toy with sounds that moved.