The above is from "In The Now" in The Now on April 14, 2010. Seems reasonable, right? Let's see what information the page-eight article contains:
Oh...? The article's headline has me confused. Is the city planning to "raise" or "reduce" the speed limit? Now I *have* to read the article to know for sure. (The answer: reduce.)
I'm amused that the headline above - from The Now on April 14, 2010 - has a misspelling of Norwegian, while the photo caption has it right.
Should your writers and editors should be more careful? I think they should should. From "Last week's question" in Tri-City News on March 12, 2010.
Take a look at this selected image from the S Restaurant advertisement in The Now on January 27, 2010. You saw the two apostrophes, right? Do you think they should be there? Do you think just one of them should be there? Do you think the selected image should be apostrophe-free? Speak and let me know what you think.
The writer of this article - "So you think you can't dance" in Tri-City News on January 20, 2010 - needs a lesson to show her that six-year-old daughter requires hyphens.
Good use of mettle in the article's headline, but poor use of metals in the photo caption for "Girls display mettle in key mat tests" in The Now on January 22, 2010. Metals should be medals.
2009, eh? So then the tickets are already available, will be should be were, and starting should be jettisoned. Either that, or 2009 should be 2010. Yeah, I'm thinking it's the date they screwed up in the City of Coquitlam Olympic Flame advertisement in Tri-City News on January 22, 2010. Also, there should be a space after the comma in the date.
The fourth and final post featuring errors from the New Year's Eve edition of Tri-City News. This article - "Bus driver assaulted on Clarke Avenue" - starts with a double-error headline. The street is actually Clark Drive. While it's an improvement that the article's second paragraph features Drive and not Avenue,
the unwelcome E is still haunting the end of Clark. Also, inconsistency between the headline and the article is never good.
The New Year's Eve errors in Tri-City News continue with the jumbled mess above. How does that paragraph - in "2004: Evergreen eyed" - get approved for publication? No editors? No proofreading? No writer pride?
The next error found in the New Year's Eve edition of Tri-City News is in "Port Moody's snowfall waste collection plan (City of Port Moody announcement)". Let's make a deal: I won't buy garbage if you don't print garbage. Stick another S in (what's supposed to be) Christmas. As I already mentioned, this was in the New Year's Eve edition. A tad late to be trying to influence shoppers' buying habits, don't you think?
The New Year's Eve edition of Tri-City News contained an alarming number of errors. First up, in "2000: NE OCP changes face of Coquitlam" we see opposite errors. Above there are extra/repeated words (or else the acronym should be NE OCP OCP), and then
there is a missing word. Specifically, to should go between effort and raise.
Lisa and her husband have the same last name: Malcic. It may be news to the writer - of "Changing baby leads to inspiration" in Tri-City News on January 15, 2010 - that no apostrophe is necessary to write about the Malcics. In fact, that apostrophe isn't just unnecessary, it's plain wrong.
It was "This week's question" in Tri-City News on January 8, 2010. Then it was "Last week's question" on January 15 and the wording was exactly the same. Shouldn't someone have noticed the extra should?
This is a Grigore's Pizza advertisement in Tri-City News on December 2, 2009. I wonder why Pasta's gets an apostrophe both times, while all four Pizzas go without. Other than that, and the oddness of capitalizing Price in each offer, it's all good.
In "Program let's girls be themselves" in The Now on December 2, 2009, an errant apostrophe is found in lets. It's a page-3 headline.
In "Top words reveal a lot about us" in The Now on December 2, 2009, Stephen Colbert's name gets a makeover. Also, while it was 9/11 earlier in the article, the slash is now incorrectly absent from 911.
Seriously? The very first word of the article - "That's why they call it puppy love" in Tri-City News on December 2, 2009 - is misspelled? Young children, let this be a lesson: perseverance (and some spell checking and/or good ol' fashioned proofreading) will help you avoid silly mistakes in the future. A computer's spell check won't catch all spelling errors, but this one would've been flagged.
There ought to be a T in Coquilam in the Baby Book 2009 advertisement in The Now on December 25, 2009. Where does the T go? After me.
-- Maple Ridge Chrysler advertisement in The Now on November 11, 2009
-- Planet Organic advertisement in The Tri-City News on November 4, 2009