It sounds like a heinous crime from “Silence of the Lambchops”: fileting a minion. Fileting (also spelled filleting) involves slicing and boning meat. When it involves a minion (or an obsequious follower or sycophant), then we’re into the realm of cannibalistic horrors.
I can’t bear to think about that; I’ll just consider that the Yahoo! Shine writer doesn’t know a minion from a mignon.
That’s probably the worst misspelling ever. So this misspelling of Philadelphia isn’t so bad:
But how did that slip past the spell-checker? Oh, yeah, Yahoo! writers don’t use a spell-checker. They also don’t understand that polar ideas are just cold ideas. Polar opposite ideas are at opposite ends of a spectrum (and not different sides of a spectrum).
Bear in mind, the writer of this article is a professional:
This is a long way from correct:
November 17, 2012 at 10:00 pm
Today (11/17), the beady-eyed Senior Editors at Yahoo! News have corrected that story.
Except for two:
“… synthesized the polar ideas into one bar …”, “… We’ve come along way from…”
Come along, little doggie. (Or is that “dogie”?)
His last paragraph makes up for the rest:
“So maybe Good & Evil is the iPad of chocolate bars. Big box, thin product, a lot of buzz, and for those cult-followers, worth every penny. That is, until a newer version comes along. “
November 18, 2012 at 6:05 pm
Yahoo seems to have some editors who manage to correct about 50 percent of the most egregious errors. Not exactly what I’d call “competent.”
November 19, 2012 at 12:34 pm
On the other hand, a 50% success rate is just about what our public schools achieve.