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Note to a recent commenter on the issue of Lexicographical Prescriptivism: I don't think we can limit our usage surveys to “educated people.” That's a slippery category. I could, however, add that usage should ideally be “unselfconscious”: as soon as you ask people a...

Why yesterday's poll on the meaning of "peruse"? Well, a respected friend of mine recommended I write a post on the way people mistakenly use "peruse" when they should use "skim." Unfortunately, my good friend's complaint smelled to me like Lexicographical...

The poll below is not a trick question. Answer honestly right off the top of your head: Which of the following do you usually mean when you say the word "peruse"? ( polls)Tune in tomorrow for an explanation!

Bill Mounce, ESV translator, is right on target: I have always taught that Greek grammar doesn’t necessarily answer all the questions definitively. Sometimes it does, but normally it gives us the legitimate range of possible interpretations, and then context and...