Corrections

The editors of "The Yahoo! Style Guide" strive for perfection in any text we include on our site and in the book. We regret the following errors, and we thank the eagle-eyed readers who have brought them to our attention.

The following errors, if they appeared on this website, have been corrected online. We invite our readers to whip out their red pens and make these corrections to the book pages indicated here.

• In the article "Coding Basics" and on book page 378 (line 1 under "Bulleted and numbered text"), we wrote, "To create a bulleted list (or unnumbered list, which is what the 'ul' in the code stands for), use the following code:"

  Correction: The "ul" stands for "unordered list," not "unnumbered list." (July 1, 2010)

• In the article "Dates" and on book page 267 (line 6 under "Years"), we wrote, "Some writers and scholars prefer the alternative abbreviations 'C.E.' (common era) to 'A.D.' and 'B.C.E.' (before the common era) to 'B.C.' because these are nonsecular."

  Correction: The word "nonsecular" should be replaced with "more secular." (July 1, 2010)

• In the book's word list (pages 438-478), several entries are out of alphabetical order.

  Correction: We applied Microsoft Word's alphabetization function to re-sort the list. The downloadable versions have been updated accordingly. Note: Microsoft uses a variation of word-by-word alphabetization; the website's word list is sorted according to a slightly different algorithm. (July 7, 2010)

• In the word list and on book page 441, for the entry "beta," we included this example: "Sign up for the new Yahoo! Messenger beta."

  Correction: "Beta" should be capitalized in this example: "Sign up for the new Yahoo! Messenger Beta." (November 4, 2010)

• On page 498 of the book's Selected Bibliography, the publisher of the Copyediting newsletter is listed as McMurray Newsletters.

  Correction: The publisher is McMurry. (November 25, 2010)

• In the article "Website Names and Addresses" and on page 256 of the book, we wrote, "The URL of a homepage generally includes only the site's domain name, which is the first part of a URL typically ending in '.com,' '.org,' '.gov,' '.uk,' '.aus,' and so on."

  Correction: The Australian domain name ends with ".au" instead of ".aus." (August 25, 2011)

• In the article "Money and Currency" and on page 280 of the book, we wrote, "If it's necessary to specify the type of dollar, use the format US$000, CAN$000, AUS$000, or NZ$000 (without a space)."

  Correction: The currency code for Australia's dollar, according to the International Organization for Standardization, is "AUD" instead of "AUS." (August 25, 2011)