The News Follies, Revisited (Spelling, Grammar, and Logic Errors)
Why Can't or Won't Johnny Edit or Write Right in the First Instance?
This is another in my ongoing, sporadic series of fails discovered in online news.
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I guess it was supposed to be “signs of anything amiss”?
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How could they have been seventy years old forty-five years ago? I don’t reckon they are both 115 now. I imagine what was meant is, “Betty and Maggie, both 70, bought a Craftsman Bungalow 45 years ago [in other words, when they were 25]…”
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She lived the last 37 years of her life not knowing who she was? Who did she think she was? It should have been, “After 37 years of not knowing who she was, authorities say…”
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Is Heargate Dolly’s estate in England, or what?
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How can it be first down after an incomplete pass on the prior play? It would be second down at least. I guess what was meant was, “Green Bay sealed the win after Aaron Jones rushed for a first down on the next play.”
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The problem with using Roman numerals is that they are hard to decipher and are an exceedingly inelegant numbering notation. While true that calling it SuperBowl 2022 or 2023 would be confusing, the real point of why using Roman numerals is silly and pretentious is that Super Bowl 57 would be much easier to read.
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Police didn’t “saly”? You don’t sally. You don’t tally. And BTW, it’s Melrose Park, not Melsrose Park.
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There are too many “tos” in the headline; not two too many tos, but one too many tos.
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Why is it so hard to get the difference between “to” and “too” right? They’re not even pronounced the same.
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And it did turn out to not happen, but it could have, easily (as it ended up, one more win would have gotten them into the playoffs).
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Uranian? When did the planet Uranus become embroiled in a battle? I think they meant Ukrainian, but since the war there has been the biggest news for the past several months, it’s really inexcusable to get that wrong.