Chefs

This from a link on the Bryant, Arkansas, Chamber of Commerce website. "Chef's"  should be chefs. 

Colons

This colon is incorrect because everything before the colon cannot stand alone as a sentence. 

Sale vs. Sell

Sale is a noun. Sell is a verb. This Benton, Arkansas, sign should read as follows: WE SELL BOTH... .

Salty Bowels??

This is from the Facebook page of a small-town police department competing with a neighboring police department's Facebook page. Both pages seek to report the work of the police each day.  The most glaring error on the page is the use of Salt BOWEL instead of Salt Bowl. There should be a comma after well, an additional period after the ellipsis or no ellipsis at all, a comma after the introductory clause ending with Salt Bowel, a period between twist and they.

Quotation Marks

The last two lines contain errors in the use of quotation marks. The quotation mark before making end after time, seeming to denote that all of the words in the last two lines are borrowed from the book previously mentioned. The quotation mark before lighting should be a single quotation mark that at some point is closed. When using a quotation within a quotation, the interior quotation should be punctuated with single quotation marks. 

The title of a book should be italicized, not punctuated with quotation marks. If a writer cannot italicize, underlining is correct. 

Mexican Fiesta

This one should be corrected as follows:

Please, for your own welfare, do not park at IHOP's parking lot. Your vehicle will be towed, and Mexican Fiesta cannot be responsible. 

We have tried speaking to the managers, but unfortunately, they will not cooperate. 

Bank of America is willing to share its parking lot for all our customers in the evening. 

We are sorry for this inconvenience. 

Political Correctness Gone Awry

In his search for gender neutrality, this writer has found the ridiculous. The suspect is clearly one person, yet the writer refers to the suspects as they rather than the logical he. 

So Many Things Wrong

The situation of a child ingesting his grandmother's meth is the biggest thing wrong with this article. The grammatical errors are in the first full sentence. The sentence could be corrected as follows: "A doctor told Officer Joe Robinson the child had methamphetamine in her system." It is never correct to refer to a human as an it/its. 

Number

It's number not numer. 

Spelling Error

Thanks to my brother for this one. 

I first thought Dear Brother was telling me that disparate should be desperate. Disparate is correct. After I sent him the link to the definition of disparate, he pointed out that inimate should be intimate. I had overlooked the obvious. 

There/They're/Their: Let's Get It Right

In the first paragraph, there should be their. The fourth paragraph's run-on sentence could be corrected with a period rather than a comma after the word found. 

Nouns of Direct Address

When addressing (speaking directly to) someone or to a group, the name of the person or group should be set apart by commas. This should read like this: Hey, Tiger Fans. 

Semicolons Calm Confusion in Lists

This list is confusing because of the way it is punctuated. (I am not going to deal with the confusing nature of the show's content.) When commas are used for more than one purpose, the semicolon should be used for the main list. The commas are used for the appositives and the list within a list:

Seven-year-old Honey Boo Boo lives with her father, Sugar Bear; mother, Mama June; and sisters, Pumpkin, Chubbs, and Chickadee.

Huh??

I saw this posted on Facebook. 

Isn't milk dairy?

Dynamaxion House

The Dynamaxion House exhibit at The Henry Ford Museum ends with a captioned film. Here are a few of the mistakes in the film:

It's an impasse. 

It's their and aviation. 

It's wanted. 

Apostrophe

There should be an apostrophe: men's 

Lamb and Lam

If one is running from the law, one is on the lam. (We were listening to oldies. I needed clarification regarding some lyrics, so I used the Pandora app.)

Comerica Park Mistake

During a Detroit Tigers/Chicago White Sox game at Comerica Park, the crowd stood to sing Jimmy Buffet's "Margaritaville" as the lyrics flashed on the screen. Shrip should be shrimp. 

One Right. One Wrong

The top sign is wrong. The apostrophe should not be used. 

Frankenmuth

An apostrophe does not a plural make. The plural of strawberry is strawberries. 

Frankenmuth

There should be a comma after home since that is the last word in the introductory dependent clause. 

Frankenmuth

This is from Frankenmuth, Michigan. The apostrophe in employee's is unnecessary.  The employees do not own an only. 

Grammarly

This Facebook page, named Grammarly, deals with various language issues. This time, the mistake is in the post made by the page creator. No apostrophe needed in it's 

No Colon Needed

This colon is unnecessary. 

Concessions

Consessions=concessions

Two Mistakes. One Menu.

No apostrophe needed in Fry's, and sandwhich should not have that extra -h. This from a Coney Island in Michigan. 

Mistake Corrected

As I entered the Belle Isle Nature Zoo in Detroit, I was delighted to see that someone had realized that it is incorrect to use double quotation marks within a quotation and had attempted to remove the unnecessary quotation marks. 

Oh,No!

I don't need to explain the error, I hope. 

Thanks to Ashley for this one. 

The War of 1977??

A bit of proof reading would have helped.  Perhaps 1777 would work better. Thanks to Melissa for this one. 

Coney Island Mistake

Three errors plague this storefront. The apostrophe in Coney's is wrong. The decimal point and cent sign cannot coexist if the coney costs just under a dollar on Tuesdays. The apostrophe in Tuesday's is incorrect if they mean to say,"On Tuesdays we have coneys that cost $.99."  If they mean to say, "Tuesday's $.99 coney is here," then the sign is correct. 

Subjects and Prepositional Phrases

The subject will not be in the prepositional phrase; therefore, "a group of 13 bicyclists were traveling" should be was traveling because it is correct to say group was instead of group were. 

This same error was repeated in many news outlets.