Local Yokels

It's pretty sad when even the local news can't spell Phoenix properly.

Survey Says ...

It seems to me that if you're going to spell Phoenix phonetically, you'd start with an F, but that's just me.

Their prerogative

VH1 doesn't need permission, it makes its own decisions. Including the decision to forgo any kind of proofreading.

I think they mean "cleavage"

They must. Because as far as I know, "cleavitch" is not a word.

Not for the "feint" of heart

Manticore's Moustache is a blog I check fairly often. It features odd and random pictures and videos. I like that sort of thing. I did not, however, like what I saw on one post:



I don't know how well that picture's going to show up, but in case you can't see it very well (curse you, screenshot!), I'll tell you what jumped out of the blog and choked me. The blog author says the woman in the video feints. F-e-i-n-t-s. To the best of my knowledge, to feint is to fake someone out. I'm pretty sure that the woman in the video fainted, f-a-i-n-t-e-d. Unless she was faking. In which case she feinted a faint.

Literacy

Today's bit of English lunacy was stolen from the Telegraph.

Currently appraising currency

I'm not sure how much money an adverb is worth. I thought about going to ask but I didn't have a dollar in "currently" to donate.

I'm sick 'n' tired of cutesy spelling

What on earth is wrong with the word 'and' or a simple ampersand? And what the h does 'n' mean? It's not in my OED.

More legal holiday problems

I'm not sure which bothers me more, the spelling or the fact that people are willing to pay five dollars for a chihuahua-sized Mrs. Claus hat.

I hope no one's expecting Tim Allen

I realize that a number of years ago there was a movie called "The Santa Clause." But you see, "clause" was a pun of sorts, what with him being Santa Claus and a clause being a distinct article in a formal document, and Tim Allen's character being forced into the role of Santa based on some magical contract ...
But the name is spelled c-l-a-u-s, not c-l-a-u-s-e. Nice try, East Valley Tribune. Thanks for playing, Dana Park. But I'm afraid you're both losers.

And I'm not even going to get into my issues with the random capitalization (Bring your own Camera!). One glaring error per day is my quota.