Saturday, September 12, 2009

in western Canada and Eastern Canada; 1.3 million people die from malaria each yar; insecticed treated bed nets

Yesterday's top story in Vancouver 24 hours, "A net-worth challenge to fight malaria," has capitalization issues. The error of not capitalizing western wouldn't be so obvious if the capitalized Eastern wasn't right there. But that pales in comparison to the errors found in the accompanying "Malaria facts" box.

Since yar has 3/4 of the letters of year, does that mean 1.3 million people die from malaria each 3/4 of a year? So every 9 months? The whole purpose of the article is to report on and raise awareness of insecticide-treated bed nets, but with an obvious misspelling and an absent hyphen apparently that phrase is too hard to write.

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