Oh dear. This one never goes away:
“But, as always, the proof will be in the detail and experts have begun pouring over the documents … “ (Metro)
“Epps, who had previously been dean of Temple’s Law School, said she remembers pouring over rankings surveys with her teams to make sure the data was correct.” (Poets&Quants website)
“We have spent the last 12 months obsessing over details, pouring over customer feedback …” (Travel & Leisure website)
Travel & Leisure didn’t obsess over one detail: the correct spelling of ‘poring’. Everyone knows what ‘pour’ means. To pore over or through means to be absorbed in reading or studying something.
I think I may need to pour myself a desperate measure.
There’s poring and there’s pouring … interesting how even journalists get this wrong. I suppose they don’t go so far as to write ‘pawing’!
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Hi, John – I think journalists are the worst offenders when it comes to things like this 🙂
I hadn’t even thought about ‘paw’. Paw, pour, pore, poor. No wonder the English language is so tricky. But journos should know better 🙂
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