{"id":1772,"date":"2010-07-28T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T17:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=1772"},"modified":"2012-11-27T20:54:17","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T04:54:17","slug":"peruse-doesnt-mean-what-most-people-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/07\/peruse-doesnt-mean-what-most-people-think\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Peruse\u2019 Doesn\u2019t Mean What Many People Think"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Look<\/a>Today I found out<\/a> ‘peruse’ doesn’t mean what many people think it means.<\/p>\n

It turns out, “peruse” does not mean “to skim” or “to glance through” or “read quickly” or the like, as it is often used.\u00a0 It actually means quite the opposite of that, meaning “to read thoroughly or carefully” or “examine carefully at great length”.<\/p>\n

This meaning comes from the commonly accepted origin of “peruse”, which was from the combination of the words “per” and “use”; this literally translates from the compounded Latin and French words to “use thoroughly”.\u00a0 This then eventually morphed to meaning more like “survey thoroughly” and today more meaning “survey text thoroughly”.<\/p>\n

Bonus<\/span> Fact:<\/p>\n