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: > >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 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. ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
