I find this explanation difficult for three reasons:
1. How does one "commit" a word? One may speak a word, or utter it. But
commit it?
2. The context of Deut. 24 shows that the "unseemly thing" that is spoken
of is something (especially a quality) a *man* finds "in" a woman, not
something a woman does, let alone anything she says.
3. the explanation makes nonsense of the rabinnical debates carried on
between the Schools of Hillel and Shammai on how this "unseemly thing" is
to be interpreted (cf Mishna Git. 9:10). There the debate is over whether
a man may divorce his wife if he finds his wife a soup burner or
spiller or another woman more comely than the one he has.
Jeffrey Gibson
jgibson@acfsysv.roosevelt.edu