• jaspersgroove@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    4 months ago

    Why does everyone write peaks when they mean peeks and peeks when they mean peaks. I see this far too consistently to believe the cause of it is anything less than a grand conspiracy.

    • SendMePhotos@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      4 months ago

      OH! I was wondering wtf they were saying. Dude I didn’t get it.

      The other one that bothers me is “try and” instead of “try to.” for some reason it really gets to me.

      • idiomaddict@feddit.deEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        That’s pretty similar to: “I’ll go and do something“ instead of “I’ll go do something.“ I wonder if there are other examples.

      • jaspersgroove@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        Heaven help you if you ever run into a situation where “piqued” is contextually appropriate.

        Lose and loose as well…and cue/que/queue, and dozens of others

      • FlightyPenguin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        4 months ago

        I love the Strunk and White style guide that says, “try and ‘try to’”. Very tongue-in-grammatical-cheek.