Maybe it was a very unusual garment decorated with seeds.
Yeah, if I had seen that headline I would have assumed that it was meant to be a bad pun.
Also, headlines are generally written by editors, not reporters. So I wouldn’t be blaming the young woman who wrote the piece; she likely had nothing whatsoever to do with the headline.
I make plenty of grammar and spelling errors on this site. 17+ years of writing computer code pretty much wiped out any hope for me. However this is a message board. I figure if someone doesn’t like it they don’t have to read my posts. Professionals being paid to write are in a different category. Their errors should be few and far between.
Funnily, I went from this thread to CNN and the 2nd article I read contained this “By Sunday afternoon, most items on Target.com were out of stock, forcing the retailer to break the news that no more inventory would not be restocked.”.
^^^
Blame it on Lilly!
I have been reading lots of real estate ads recently. It’s not a typo when you say “or just basque on the deck”
Oh, and those Palladium windows must be expensive, and the rot-iron railing isn’t to be trusted.
Well, to be fair, the Basque cuisine is heavy on grilled meats … 
[Note to self: have a San Sebastian-themed beach party this summer where guests are invited to “Basque on the deck”… I like it!]
Over at the Language Log, they’ve been collecting examples of ‘misnegation’. A number of them are hard to spot. (By the way, the subject/verb agreement in that last sentence is interesting. No way I would use ‘A number of them is hard to spot’.) Here’s one I’m fond of (Here’s one of which I am fond???):
Deliberate failure not to make payment…is a criminal offence.
And on the international scene: Climbing Mount Paektu provides precious mental pabulum more powerful than any kind of nuclear weapon," the Rodong newspaper quoted Mr Kim as saying. Pabulum, is that really what Kim Jung Un meant?
Between typos and incorrect autocorrects, it is hard to write these days!
I also think the problem is over-reliance on spellcheck–that’s how you get things like “basque” and “sewing” in the examples above.
I’m more annoyed by misuse of words that creeps into common usage: like “hone in.” Arrgh!
My father once received a resume from a job applicant who had earned his Batchelors Degree.
My current favorite is the email that Columbia University sent to my daughter. It was touting its famous alumni, including “Warren Buffet”. I sent them an email back noting that they really should be spelling his name correctly. Oddly, they haven’t responded yet.
Yale professor says this thread should be closed:
http://news.yale.edu/2015/04/17/project-explores-marvelously-diverse-ways-we-speak-english
“Often people are convinced that there is a right way of speaking a language and a wrong way of speaking that language. From the point of view of a linguist, that is really off the mark for many reasons”
I see a lot of redundancy in our local newspaper. Recently, the baseball team “won eight consecutive games in a row.”
A major pharma advertising a few “principle scientist” positions… perfect. 
Would you be more reluctant to hire a company whose advertisement contained glaring errors? Or do you think that’s a whole different department than their customer service?
There’s a local company that does home repairs. Their company name is: Were the guys. And yes, I would hesitate the hire a company that doesn’t care that much.
Sidebar–
While the word “disrespected” has worked its way into the vernacular, its still like nails on a blackboard to me.
And as for redundant… " 8 a.m. in the morning". Yes, we know its in the morning.
I have seen resumes of students who were elected to Phi Betta Kappa.