okay! that's enough!
Everyone can stop using "pouring" when they mean "poring". Right now.
pore: verb [ intrans. ] ( pore over/through) be absorbed in the reading or study of : Heather spent hours poring over cookbooks.
• archaic think intently; ponder : when he has thought and pored on it.
ORIGIN Middle English : perhaps related to peer 1 .
"Pour" is a transitive verb. It requires a direct object. If you are pouring over something, you need to tell me what is being poured. Water? Coffee? Incubation buffer?
This post is brought to you by the dozen or twenty blog posts lately that've made me wince. (That is, the dozen or twenty recent blog posts with this particular error.)
pore: verb [ intrans. ] ( pore over/through) be absorbed in the reading or study of : Heather spent hours poring over cookbooks.
• archaic think intently; ponder : when he has thought and pored on it.
ORIGIN Middle English : perhaps related to peer 1 .
"Pour" is a transitive verb. It requires a direct object. If you are pouring over something, you need to tell me what is being poured. Water? Coffee? Incubation buffer?
This post is brought to you by the dozen or twenty blog posts lately that've made me wince. (That is, the dozen or twenty recent blog posts with this particular error.)