I read with amusement Malcolm
Tent's note about peak vs. pique. About 5 minutes later, I read a joke from an email subscriber list. Sure enough,
someone's interest was peaked in the joke.
A few days ago, a newspaper article described someone as
straight-laced - who'd want crooked laces, anyway? I have often read that someone
poured
over a book or newspaper - this must make for wet reading. Another recent
orthographically-challenged article mentioned coming to your sight, when
the author meant to cite site. A reporter in our local newspaper wrote
about a grizzly sight when describing a bloody scene, not a view containing certain bears.
Occurrences like this seem endless.
If ignorance is bliss, today's writers
must be really, really happy.