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Chris -- 2025-05-10
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At a writers’ group meeting this past week a well-written piece we were examining had this malapropistic spelling, and I asked the other members of the group, without preamble, what they pictured in their minds when they thought of pouring over details. They are a highly literate group, and highly aware of metaphors and how they work into a well-constructed piece of writing. Several of them immediately leaned their bodies forward, and their heads even more so. A couple made gestures indicating that something (perhaps their attention?) was pouring out of their foreheads or eyes as they did so, onto the details before them. It was perfectly congruent, for them, to spell it pour . A couple were aware that pore was the older spelling, but agreed that pour seems to have taken its place as more standard today.
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A highly successful eggcorn. Anyone know when it was first laid?
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2022-10-16 14:12:58)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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