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From: cortesi@infmx.UUCP (David Cortesi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: misuse of English
Message-ID: <4144@infmx.UUCP>
Date: 3 May 90 18:47:33 GMT
References: <90120.223441CMH117@psuvm.psu.edu> <8290@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu>
Reply-To: cortesi@infmx.UUCP (David Cortesi)
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In article <7948@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> david@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV
(David E. Smyth) writes:

>I spent the afternoon pouring over the NeXT at a demo-day they had here.
                       ^^^^^^^

And in article <8290@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu> velasco@beowulf.UUCP (Gabriel Velasco)
writes following a quote from another person:
>Here!  Here!  
  ^^^^^^^^^^^

For the benefit of readers in other countries, let me explain that
these are not correct usages of English.  The writers have made
the common error of writing the wrong one of a pair of words that
sound alike.  The word for "scrutinize" is pore, not pour (one pours
beer into a glass), while to make a public display of agreement one
shouts "Hear! Hear!" (asking others to pay attention), not "Here! Here!"
(although you might shout the latter if you wanted the waiter to come to
your table and pour beer in your glass).