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Sorry to be a grammar right wing populist, but it's "pore over".

To pore is to think deeply about to something, to dwell on it.

A pour-over is a type of coffee.

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I'm not sure why you are being down voted. This sounds like it is a surprising revelation for many, myself included.

I believe it is for "right wing populist" when nazi is usually used with the grammar phrase.

This makes a lot of sense. I have never seen Pore-Over written right, and pronounced, I always thought it was Pour and as an immigrant (even though i came here when I was 5 years old) it never quite made sense, but I went with it. Now that I know the word "pore" exists with this definition, it makes so much more sense.

Ha! I’ve always thought pour was more of an onomatopoeia of being hunched over and processing a large set of things.

I’ve learned something new today. :)

Another thing to add to your learnings for the day is the difference between “metaphor” and “onomatopoeia”. The latter is only for words that are related to a particular sound they are describing, e.g., “quack”, “bang”, “sizzle”, “whoosh”.

“Pour over” is the sense you describe would be a metaphor.

So it’s strange I hear it as a sound describing the action then?

I never thought of it as onomatopoeic before but, if I string the sound out – pooooooour – making the “o” noisy and its pitch rise slowly it does remind me of the sound of a cup being filled from a tap.

Ok, I still think it’s an unusual example but you’ve convinced me.

I retract my earlier comment and replace it with a “today I learned” for me. :)

I’m not a grammar nazi either, but I am glad you posted this. I didn’t know this either. This was an insightful correction.

The only thing I usually correct is jibe vs jive....

Never knew this. Thanks for sharing.

And just hipster drip coffee at that.

damn it

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