We’ve covered this goof in the past. This headline is saying no city is able to get a train station. Huh? Say, “Not every city gets a train station.”

We did our “misplaced modifiers” segment just last week. Someone didn’t pay attention! A family has owned and operated several people since 1981? We’re going to say no. How about we instead treat this as a comma splice infraction? We’ll replace the comma after “1981” with a period and allow the partial sentence because it’s an ad. Boom. Fixed. Also, don’t Arbitrarily mix Up lower Case And caps.

The Grammar Police made a similar bust Nov. 14, to no avail. Again: The operative word is one. One. One in four is an immigrant.

There might be a foreign-language issue here. And maybe there’s some “Increment of the weather” we don’t know about. But we’re guessing they meant “inclement weather.”

Once again: The Horribly Wrong team will not pounce on what simply might be typos made in the heat of live TV. Unless we surmise the person instead wielded a homophone like a drunk with a loaded gun. Which probably happened here. You pour lemonade. You pore over documents.

Its a shame when a high-end restaurant wont use it’s resources to get good writer’s. (By the way, the axiom gets it backward. It should be, “Eat your cake and have it too.” Think about it.

Redundant. It already was a fatal shooting when the first officer died. How about: “Second police officer dies after shooting in NYC.”

And we go to the video archives for Segment 11: Bad TV, weather edition. https://youtu.be/Ovgiues5qbc

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