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Mostly likely it's a typo

Laura wrote 16 hours ago: It’s just a little typo on Yahoo! Shine, right? Yeah, that’s what it is: … more →

Tags: misspellings, misspelling, Shine, Typo, Yahoo

A New Year's resolution about the new year

Laura wrote 21 hours ago: I’m thinking of making a New Year’s resolution: Stop writing about the misspellings of n … more →

Tags: capitalizing, <punctuation>, commas, Apostrophes, capitalization, Apostrophe, comma, Holidays, missing apostrophe

Thank you for the opportunity

Laura wrote 1 day ago: I’m sending a big thank-you to the writer of this article on Yahoo! Shine. Thank you for the o … more →

Tags: hyphens, <punctuation>, Wrong Words, incorrect punctuation, missing hyphen, missing punctuation, Old Fashioned, punctuation errors, punctuation mistakes

Who taut you to write?

Laura wrote 1 day ago: No words. I have no words for this: It would be a new entry in the “Commonly Confused Words … more →

Tags: Confused Words, taut/taught, Wrong Words, Commonly confused words, funny homophone, funny homophone error, funny homophone mistake, funny homophones, funny writing errors

Going to hell in a Hank Basket

Laura wrote 1 day ago: Leading the way is the writer from Yahoo! Shine who can’t quite get Hank Baskett’s name … more →

Tags: misspellings, Hank Baskett, Missing Letter, misspelled celebrities, misspelling, Shine, Yahoo

A troubling problem

Laura wrote 2 days ago: Having trouble reading this teaser on Yahoo! Shine? Me, too. … more →

Tags: Wrong Words, Shine, Typo, wrong word, Yahoo

Stuart Weitzman shoes and Taraji P. Henson get no respect

Laura wrote 2 days ago: What woman doesn’t love shoes? Especially Stuart Weitzman shoes. I just wish the writer of thi … more →

Tags: adverbs, hyphens, misspellings, modifiers, <punctuation>, Subject-Verb Agreement, Unnecessary Words, Verbs, Typo

Time to kick out the New Year

Laura wrote 3 days ago: It’s time to kick out the New Year and replace it with new year. It’s here on the home p … more →

Tags: capitalizing, Wrong Words, Typo, capitalization, wrong word, Yahoo, Shine, new years, New Years Eve

Sofia Vergara's foundation for NYC university?1 comment

Laura wrote 3 days ago: It seems that actress Sofia Vergara has established a foundation for Columbia, the New York City uni … more →

Tags: Factual Errors, funny writing errors, funny writing mistakes, Shine, The Thread, Yahoo

When 2 + 7 = 10

Laura wrote 4 days ago: There’s nothing grammatically wrong with this teaser for an article on Yahoo! Shine: The probl … more →

Tags: Errors of fact, Factual Errors, factual error, funny writing errors, funny writing mistakes, Yahoo, Shine

How about this for a New Year's resolution?

Laura wrote 6 days ago: Let’s hope that the writers for Yahoo! Shine make a New Year’s resolution to raise the g … more →

Tags: capitalizing, capitalization, Holidays, new years, New Years Eve, Shine, Yahoo

Red: Trendy color for 2010?1 comment

Laura wrote 6 days ago: The trendy color for 2010 is turquoise. Frankly, I think I’ll be seeing red if this is what re … more →

Tags: misspellings, capitalizing, <punctuation>, Apostrophes, possessives, Typo, misspelling, capitalization, Apostrophe

Get a jump-start on the new year

Laura wrote 1 week ago: It’s a new year! Time for new beginnings. Let’s hope that for the writers on Yahoo! Shin … more →

Tags: hyphens, misspellings, <punctuation>, misspelling, hyphen, Yahoo, Shine, incorrect punctuation, missing punctuation

Let's hope this is the last we see of the New Year

Laura wrote 1 week ago: Please, let today be the last day we are confronted with the New Year. It’s just wrong. There … more →

Tags: capitalizing, capitalization, Yahoo! TV, Yahoo, Shine, new years, New Years Eve, new year

Next time I'll just write 'appetizers'

Laura wrote 2 weeks ago: It’s just easier than trying to spell hors d’oeuvres: I wish the writer for Yahoo! Shine … more →

Tags: bad spelling, hors d'œuvre, incorrect spelling, misspelling, Shine, spelling, spelling error, spelling mistake, The Thread

Does a question mark in the wrong place = "screwup"?

Laura wrote 2 weeks ago: And does arbitrarily capitalizing a word = double screwup? Does it surprise you that this headline = … more →

Tags: capitalizing, <punctuation>, question marks, Quotation Marks, capitalization, Question Mark, quotation mark, Yahoo, Shine

A 4-year-old would know better

Laura wrote 2 weeks ago: OK. So, I exaggerate. A 14-year-old would know that there needs to be hyphens here: and here: I wond … more →

Tags: <punctuation>, hyphens, hyphen, Âges, Yahoo, Shine, incorrect punctuation, missing punctuation, punctuation errors

Is it that hard to work out?

Laura wrote 2 weeks ago: Is it that hard to figure out that workout is a noun and work out is a verb?   Or is it just a case … more →

Tags: Wrong Words, wrong word, Verb, Work Out, Workout, Yahoo, Shine

Sweating it out1 comment

Laura wrote 2 weeks ago: The writer on Yahoo! Shine should have sweated a bit more over this teaser and used the correct tens … more →

Tags: Verbs, verb tense, Verb, tense, Past-Tense, Yahoo, Shine


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