3 Jun
2021
3 Jun
'21
11:09 p.m.
On Thursday 03 June 2021 15:54:53 Marvin Jones via tde-users wrote:
On Thu, 3 Jun 2021, William Morder via tde-users
wrote:
No! not by "pouring over" [WRONG!], but rather by "poring over"
[correct] a
lot of material.
To pore: to contemplate, to study closely.
yours in jest, as well as seriously, too!
Bill
P.S. I can't help it. I am an insufferable pedant.
Little details give a quick glimpse. How often do
I read somebody
writing about "honing in" [WRONG] on a point, rather than "homing in"
[correct]? I used to keep a list of these grievances, until my hard
drive crashed, with a view to writing some sort of essay on the sad
state of the English language, in its various forms and literatures;
and I might still write it, but I need to recover that data, or to
start the list again. And I could give hundreds more examples, but
readers either know what I mean, or they don't.
I assume you accumulated all those examples
by "pouring over" a lot of material!
Yours in jest,
Jonesy