he process of &quot;picking out&quot; letters in reading.  The lexical
roots collected here probably indicate an original analogy between
the game of hunting after meaningful and edifying lexemes in reading
and the work of gathering edible legumes and sorting out the grain from
the chaff and the tares (&quot;gramma&quot; = &quot;letter&quot;, &quot;writing&quot;, &quot;a small weight&quot;,
&quot;tare weight&quot;, &quot;grain&quot;).  It is interesting that the Latin gleanings refer
mainly to reading or to