mistake #48

It's probably not a good sign when you spell a word wrong in the headline.

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mistake #47

In elementary school, I learned that the dollar sign ($) meant dollars. Therefore, one could reason that writing "$50 dollars" is redundant, right?

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mistake #46

This story from CollegeCandy.com made a few AP Style errors. First, "all right" is ALWAYS two words, never one. Second, both letters must be capitalized in the word "OK."

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mistake #45

The misspelling of the word "capische" in this DrakeMag Online blog wouldn't have been so obvious if it hadn't been tacked on to the end of a paragraph, just hanging there in its misery. Webster could have solved this problem.

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mistake #44

Oops. Most readers would know that this incorrect spelling was referring to designer Christian Louboutin, but the misspelling looks unprofessional from a magazine that knows fashion.

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mistake #43

An extra comma after "madness" distracts readers away from the point of the sentence in this MarieClaire.com article. Someone should have looked over her story before she posted it..

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mistake #42

In this article from my local newspaper, the facts don't match up. Why would this woman be a kindergarten student at a high school? I believe the writer meant to say, "She was a kindergarten student at Rosemount Elementary School."

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mistake #41

I don't know if this was just a formatting thing, but this MarieClaire.com story seemed to use dashes and hyphens interchangeably, which I know is incorrect. There should be dashes in between "ex" and "now's," and later in between "get" and "meet" -- in both cases, two separate ideas that need more separation than just a hyphen provides.

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not-a-mistake #40

There was no mistake in this piece, just beautiful writing. (Ironic, in a sentence about how writing doesn't have to be beautiful.) This section popped out at me - I don't often get to see writing like this on the Web. Well done, Marie Claire.

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mistake #39

This MarieClaire.com story is just missing a comma, but the punctuation error makes it difficult to understand the writer's meaning. There should be a comma after "talks," and I'd like to see one after "behaves" too - but that's just my preference:

"I think many women feel like they know Michelle Obama because she's very real, in the way she talks, the way she behaves, and, yes, in the way she dresses."

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mistake #38

This Twitter page from Drake's newest male a capella group calls The Breakdown "Drake University's premiere" group - but since it's an adjective, "premier" should be used.

Twitter page: The Breakdown