[Ads-l] I cannot phantom...

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

> On Jun 28, 2019, at 2:31 PM, Mark Mandel <markamandel at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> piqued -> peaked
> I have seen this homophone error many times. I can easily imagine it
> displacing the "correct" spelling *piqued* soon. (This goes for all forms
> of the verb.)....

of course it's in the Eggcorn Database:

https://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/86/peak/
pique > pique
2/15/05

arnold

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