"hone through"

[Dan Goncharoff]

I am still looking for the plural antecedent for "them". Is knowledge
plural?
DanG

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> At 4/27/2011 12:25 AM, Douglas G. Wilson wrote:
> >On 4/26/2011 11:52 PM, Herb Stahlke wrote:
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> >>I found the following odd usage of "hone" on the Kendall College web
> >>site.  The first 100 google hits for "hone through" show no other
> >>examples of this usage.   There were a lot of examples of "hone
> >>through" in the sense of running a hone through something and a lot of
> >>misspellings for "bone," "shone," "phone," etc..  There were a number
> >>of instances of honing skills through practice, and that seems a
> >>likely route by which this example arose.
> >>
> >>"At Kendall, we start with the fundamentals, then incorporate advanced
> >>culinary techniques and skills. Students hone through this knowledge
> >>by practicing them in real-world environments beyond the classroom,
> >>including the two Kendall restaurants and through mandatory
> >>internships."
> >>http://culinary.kendall.edu/academics/aas-culinary-arts/
> >>   ....
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> >I can't be sure, but I suspect this is gibberish from a cut-and-paste
> >error or similar boo-boo. I would expect "Students hone their/these
> >skills by practicing them ..." or something like that. ("Hone their
> >skills" seems a popular phrase in such contexts.)
> >
> >The above text seemingly has been on the page since 2009 (per Wayback),
> >but probably these 'blurbs' are not often read critically.
> >
> >-- Doug Wilson
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> Or a confusion with "home in on"?  Although "practicing" is not "home
> in on" to me.
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> Joel
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