Trick question:
Do you usually read my column thoroughly, or do you just peruse it?
I couldn’t think of a better way to introduce our topic: commonly misused words. “Peruse” is on a list of 75.
The word “peruse” I heard first circa 1967 from a college boyfriend. He said his father had perused some sort of secret foolproof guidelines used by the big players in the commodities market in Chicago. Based …