This week I learned that pretty much everyone who’s ever opined about the word “peruse” was wrong, kind of. And the people who corrected the people who opined wrongly were also wrong, kind of. And ...

The story goes that, when a famous author received a manuscript from an unknown writer, the big shot wrote back, “Thank you. I shall waste no time in reading it.” Wait a minute. Did he mean he would ...

When you ‘browse’ through a book, you go through it very quickly; you do not read every page nor do you read every line in a paragraph. Browsing is something that we all do before buying a book or a ...