Proving that they are equal opportunity when it comes to misspelling names, the writers at Yahoo! Shine come up with an unusual spelling of Phillip Garrido’s name: Filed under: Misspellings Tagged: bad spelling, editing, incorrect...

Do the editors for Yahoo! Shine know something we don’t? Is Abercrombie & Fitch really not the name of the apparel store? Those little quotation marks really threw me. Maybe they indicate that the caption refers to a movie or a bo...

Showing a definite lack of respect for the wife of the president, the writer for Yahoo! Shine misspells Michelle Obama’s name: Filed under: Misspellings Tagged: bad spelling, editing, incorrect spelling, Michelle Obama, misspelled...

As far as I know, schools have only one principal. If that’s true, why did the writer for Yahoo! Shine imply that a school in Virginia has more than one principal? I guess if there are two principals, and they sit in the principal...

Sometimes, when I’m writing photo captions for Yahoo! News‘ “The Lookout” I get really, really bored. So just for fun I’ll start writing in English and then switch to la française. N’est-ce pas drôle? ...

If you can’t be right, at least be consistent. That seems to be the philosophy over at Yahoo! Movies, where the “experts” in cinema can’t spell “Inside Llewyn Davis” in a caption here: Or in the headli...

The oral gel that you thought was called Orajel is really called something else. At least that’s what these quotation marks on Yahoo! News implies: Filed under: Punctuation, Quotation Marks Tagged: editing, incorrect punctuation, m...

This is the first paragraph of an article from Yahoo! News‘ “The Lookout”: Why would anyone bother to read any more? Filed under: Unnecessary Words, Wrong words Tagged: editing, extra word, proofreading, The Look, typo...

The principal (or most important) principle (or basic rule) of writing is to know something about the language you’re writing in. The writer for Yahoo! Shine illustrates one possible outcome if you dare to violate that principle: ...

Looks like J. A. Happ wasn’t the only one hit on the head. The writer, editor, and proofreader for the Yahoo! front page seem to be suffering from a little cranial damage, too: Filed under: Missing Words