Dear Point readers,

While checking the Yahoo news reports for the local news of my home state, Minnesota, I ran across this lovely lead (which has since been fixed). While embarrassing, it may be funny, and perhaps partly true.

“Parts of Minnesota - already walloped by heavy rains and damaging winds over the weekend - could face large hair, tornadoes and flooding Monday afternoon and evening, the National Weather Service said [emphasis mine].”

Now, can you spot the problem?

I have to admit, I laughed out loud when I read this. Like I said . . . large hair might very well be a result of humid, wet, stormy weather, but trust me, as a journalist, there’s a big difference between large hair and large hail.

Spell-check, unfortunately, won’t catch this one, because “hair” is a word. One might wish spell-check understood context. Maybe that’s the wave of the future.

Amused,
Jess