Pour over is only good for coffee

If you’re reading this blog post, chances are you’ve probably pored over more than a few emails, documents and social media posts looking for misuse of words, spelling errors, punctuation mistakes and much more. Perhaps you have your editing hat on now, studying this text to see if you can spot any errors.

So have you?

Quite possibly you have, in which case, our bad 😬 But if you were giving “pored over” a second look, you can rest easy. It’s not a typo: One meaning of the word “pore” is to study intently. Hence, the phrase is pore over, not “pour over.”

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