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From: david@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (David E. Smyth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: misuse of English
Summary: Nah, I knew what I wrote...
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Date: 4 May 90 18:59:27 GMT
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cortesi@infmx.UUCP (David Cortesi) writes:
|david@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (David E. Smyth) writes:
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|>I spent the afternoon pouring over the NeXT at a demo-day they had 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), ...

Well, I figured it went without saying that I was pouring beer into a
glass over a Next during the demonstration...

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