Typos of the New York Times
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I am an appellate lawyer and persnickety dude. As a hobby, I correct typos in the Times, which no longer employs copy editors and consequently has tons of typos
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The New York Times As previously noted, “terminally-ill” is a bad style guide violation. The film desk needs to stop crapping all over the stylebook, Stephanie Goodman.
The Athletic Jim Trotter As I have tried to teach you in the past, “predominately” is not a word, Jim Trotter. It’s just a common misspelling of predominantly. And what is with this paragraph spacing?
The Athletic NBA Mike Vorkunov analog/analogue error, Mike Vorkunov; analog is a recording format, not an analogous thing. cc Mike Prada. (PRAY-duh)
The New York Times “Inkatha working” is an ungrammatically fused participle that should read “Inkatha’s working.” Lynsey Chutel John Eligon
The New York Times This “which” should be a “that.” See the Times style guide. Adam Ganucheau, cc jfidelino_nyt
The New York Times The second word of your article is a grammatical error; “The” should be “the” in “When The Washington Post staff” because “the” modifies “staff,” not “Post.” See your style guide, and please stop making this mistake, as you often do, Katie Robertson, Ben Mullin.
The New York Times Jesus Jiménez The Times “adjusts” capitalization and punctuation in quotes to follow its style, and under its style it doesn’t hyphenate “Mexican-American” (the theory is that hyphenation implies only part-American status) or capitalize “veterans.” Jesus Jiménez
The New York Times “an” is a typo in “Canales said an in a 2015 interview”; “the Los Angeles Times” is a style guide violation for “The Los Angeles Times”; more exciting style guide violations to follow. Jesus Jiménez
The Athletic Lauren Merola Likewise, “people using her name was not something I can control” (internal quotation marks omitted) is a grammatical error for “people’s using her name.” The thing she can’t control is the use of her name, not the people who are using it (which is what “people using” means).
The Athletic “name being” is an ungrammatically fused participle that should read “name’s being.” What you wrote means Caitlin Clark denounced her own name (which is being used to push racism and misogyny), not that she denounced the use of her name to push racism and misogyny. Lauren Merola
The New York Times As your style guide says, to satisfy the most exacting readers, change “different than” to “different from.” Sheryl Gay Stolberg
The Athletic David Aldridge “There’s nothing illegal in the PBM’s practices” is an error for “the PBMs’ practices,” the practices of the PBMs, not of the PBM. “Pharmacy Benefit Managers” should be lowercase throughout. David Aldridge
The New York Times Ungrammatically omitted comma after an appositive. It goes after Jackson. Abbie VanSickle