Deadly Wordplay #2: Piqued and Picky about Peaked, Peeked, and Piqued
I have more than one pet peeve about writing. The misuse of the words peaked, peeked, and piqued is one of them. Other than the fact that they are homophones, I don’t understand why perfectly capable writers and editors miss these every now and then. Peaked …is the past tense of the verb to peak. The noun version of the word looks like this: or like this: The use of the verb version of the word, which means to reach…