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Words to Ponder When Foraging for Food in the Desert

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

As a connoisseur of words (yeah, I said it), I’m fascinated by the idiosyncrasies of the English language and word usage rules that aren’t common knowledge. I don’t think most of us go around choosing to ignore these funny little rules, but there are so many that we just can’t keep them all straight, especially when we have other things going on like businesses to run or children to raise or marathons to train for.

But since I get my jollies from this sort of thing, I’ve decided to compile a short list of interesting rules often ignored in speaking and in writing. This will be a recurring post so I’m interested to hear your feedback.

1. It’s not peaked your interest. It’s piqued your interest. Piqued is a homonym, or a word that sounds similar to its meaning, and it is often spelled incorrectly.

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