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What color is the roof of your mouth?
Somehow, the writer for Yahoo Lifestyle managed to see the roofs of the mouths of a “stylish group.” I wonder what a brightly colored palate looks like: I also wonder why the writer and her editor...
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Being to feel
I’m beginning to feel that the folks at Yahoo News don’t believe in proofreading:
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New York AG proponent of sexual misconduct?
I’m scratching myself and wiping the dandruff off my keyboard over this teaser on Yahoo News: I know what an opponent of sexual misconduct is. But what is an opponent against sexual misconduct? I think...
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Readers vow to stand up to errors
In other news, according to Yahoo News, European leaders vow to “stand-up” to Trump: With a hyphen, stand-up is a variant of standup, which is an adjective (he’s a standup guy) or noun (he’s a comedian...
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What can you glean from this?
Here’s a shining example of an incorrect word choice on Yahoo Lifestyle: It’s so glowingly bad it practically gleams. What can you glean from this mistake? That Yahoo doesn’t think competent editors...
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War of words
In a war of words between Yahoo News editors and people familiar with English grammar, the editors would lose: Let’s hope the war of words escalates to a point that Yahoo staffers admit that they...
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Going rouge
Is my face red! That’s what I’d say if I were the editor for yahoo.com: This is a rogue monster wave: This is a rouge monster wave:
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Miscellaneous words
Imagine the argument by the editors at Yahoo News that resulted in this mess: Editor 1: I think it should be “half of Americans are in favor of Congress…” Editor 2: No, it should be “half of Americans...
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John McCain buried under Capitol building
In what surely must be a first, the late Senator John McCain has been interred under the U.S. Capitol building, according to Yahoo News: Although other news sources report that the senator was buried...
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Reader asks: ‘Where is the question mark?’
Did Trump really rail about money for the WALL? That’s the question Yahoo News asks: Did he rail or didn’t he rail? Perhaps he just asked the question, “Where is the money for … the WALL?” And perhaps...
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