| Are you perusing this note or just skimming it over? Peruse has long meant ?to read thoroughly? and is often used loosely when one could use the word read instead. Sometimes people use it to mean ?to glance over, skim,? as in I only had a moment to peruse the manual quickly, but this usage is widely considered an error. Sixty-six percent of the Usage Panel finds it unacceptable. | 1 |