Has anyone experienced Google just butchering a page title?

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

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  David Ogletree: Are you using Noodp & Noydir tags
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  Tom Gooden: Thanks Casey but I don`t think that is the case.
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  Tom Gooden: David - in the source.
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  Casey Markee: Google reserves the right to rewrite your title tag and there are a lot of reasons why they do this. First, if they see anchor text from website A linking to website B, sometimes they can, depending on the user’s query, they`ll serve that as the title. Second, if the title tag as specified by a webmaster is limited to being static, or fixed regardless of the query, Google can determine it may again not best represent the user query and rewrite. They cover all this and more on their info page on the topic here: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35624 And here are some more resources for you to review: https://yoast.com/google-page-title/ http://www.thesempost.com/how-why-google-rewrites-page-titles-in-the-search-results/ Bottom Line: Googles KNOWS BETTER than you do when this happens (snicker) and it happens quite a bit.
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  Tom Gooden: I think that meta is from Yoast so can I set a manual meta
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  David Ogletree: Those are to tell google not to use title from ODP and Yahoo directories.
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  Kyle Hawk: It happened to me once. It didn`t capitalize anything and just looked awful. I adjusted my title tag to be a variation of what they provided just with proper formatting. I guess Google liked it, because soon after it changed their listing back to my provided title tag.