Since most of us, including me, are pretty good at finding other's errors and loopholes. I am sure there are plenty of you that will be able to help me with a assignment for my Eng 365 class.

I need to make a list of Hall of Shame i.e. find grammatical errors in newspapers, periodicals, books, billboards and other official publication.

I know most of you are like "what is google for?". But my teacher has said that he will make sure I didn't use google.

SO, IF ANY ONE HAS EVER HAD TO DO THE SAME THING FOR A CLASS PLZZZZ HELP ME OUT.

***Typographical errors do not count. Sentences that are missing the comma before "and" and before the last item in a series also do not count(style option)****

Examle is here :
Former US Vice President Dan Quale misspelled the word 'potato' at a junior school classroom infront of students and live national TV. He wrote 'Potatoe' instead of 'Potato'.

Thanks, Khaobaadi BUT I need to find grammatical errors in (current) NEWSPAPERS,PERIODICALS,BOOKS,BILLBOARDS and other OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS.

Here’s one:

No one can outrun their destiny

No one---their (wrong)

No one---his/her (correct

Doesnt Bush pronouce the word "nuclear" that sounds more like "nucluuar" whenever he mentions the word.

No one can outrun their destiny : is correct .No one is indefinate pronoun.
If u say no one can outrun his destiny.. then who ??? thier is no noun involved.Hence
EX:you can say :Ram can not outrun his destiny.

good point ImI.
Kaobaadi, Americans (specially southern) born before 1960s pronounce nuclear as Nucular, Bush is one of them. The phenomenon is called Metathesis. Even Carter (he had Nuclear Navy background) and Bill Clinton pronounced it that way as well.

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Just found one on BBC website. The article quoted
"Germany are playing Costa Rica in the opening game in the 59,000-seat venue. "
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/world_cup_2006/5056630.stm

Good catch o_o. That is suppose to be "is" instead of "are " rite?
Freaking english is most difficult language.

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Thank you so much. This is the kind of help I was looking for. If you guys find similar errors, please keep posting.

Thanks once again oo and ImI.

There is nothing wrong in saying 'germany are playing costarica...'

Dreamer,
Can you please explain why it's OK to say germany is....

It should be Germans are playing with costaricians.
Germany is singular how can you have is with singular?

read my previous post as:

"There is nothing wrong in saying 'germany are playing costarica..."
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Dreamer,
can you plz explain why it's ok to say germany are; I thought it should have been germany is playing costa rica.

Ya Dreamer .how? can you explain that to mary.

Dreamer is wrong...
Germany is a name of a country.how can you put are ?????????

I am afraid Idont have a logic.

Probably when we talk about Germany as a team, it is not wrong to say Germany are playing against......

I have heard it plenty of times. So it is not wrong. Agreed, I may not have a proper logic but thats the way language is.

Dreamer , english is funny language no doubt about it.
May be it might sound rite to you when you hear or in general converstion but it is not correct grammaratically when you put that in write that in sentence.
just like "pani khane?"

Dreamer is right. team is a plural term when you consider it involving in some activity/motion, so "are" playing is absolutely correct, and "is" playing is not OK.