Published on
June 16, 2025
by
Marvin Erdner
Revised on
July 29, 2025
Nobody needs to know the difference between the words peak, pique, or peek until it’s time to spell or read them. That’s usually how most homophones work, and it’s never a problem until it is. If you’re reading this blog, this must be one of those times, and I’m here to help you figure it out.
You’ve probably come across tweets on Twitter with a list of homophones meant to test your language skills or intelligence several times. It’s a pretty harmless activity that usually leads to people sharing and bonding over their frustration about the English language. In the instance of pique, peak, and peek, most people interchange the words peak and peek for all three, but what do they mean, and how should they be used?
Correct Spellings
Peek: verb / noun, meaning “take a brief look” or a “glance”
Peak: noun / verb, meaning “climax” or “reaching the top”
There are several differences between British English and American English. American English spelling omits letters compared to British English: “-or” instead of “-our,” dropping silent “e,” and replacing “-ae” or “-oe” with “e.”
Published on
June 16, 2025
by
Marvin Erdner
Revised on
July 29, 2025
Whether on social networks or on your e-mail platform—a large part of professional and private communication takes place in written form via an internet browser. If you provide error-free and appropriate language in your writing, you will appear more competent, serious and successful.
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These days, the British government is discussing re-establishing the imperial system instead of the metric system or, to be precise, their current coexistence.
Correct Use
When the United Kingdom was colonizing the globe during the 18th Century, they brought with them their English system, also known as the imperial system.
One of their then main colonies, the United States, adapted this unified system of measurement and formalized it as the United States customary units, which are still in use today.
During the 19th Century, continental Europe created the metric units that primarily rely on a decimal system (with the base number ten), known as the metric system.
Almost every country uses the metric system, except for the United States and its former colonies, Liberia and Myanmar (also known as Burma) .
You might have realized that people from the US use different measuring units compared to almost anywhere else in the world. But why is that, and how can we cope with the differences these fundamental systems entail? Let’s have a look at the imperial system and the metric system in this article.
Diseases, theories, and objects are sometimes named after their discoverers. But do we capitalize the resulting compounds?
Correct Spelling
The majority of diseases are spelled in lowercase, unless they are at the beginning of a sentence.
○ The doctor suggested he should eat healthy because diabetes runs in his family.
○Obesity is associated with the leading cause of death, according to the CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention).
Disease names that are acronyms are spelled with capital (uppercase) letters: AIDS, SARS, COVID-19, etc.
The first letter of theories, units, methods, inventions, or concepts that are named after a person should be capitalized: Murphy’s law, Ponzi scheme, Geiger counter, etc.
However, if a one-word unit is named after a real person, you spell it in lowercase: volt, watt,hertz, etc.
