"Sneak peek"
So many people misspell "sneak peek" these days that it's almost become proper English. Reminds me of "chaise lounge," a misspelling of the French term "chaise longue" meaning "long chair."*
Nonetheless, here I am on a rampage about it. For the last time: a "peak" is the top of a mountain, and a "peek" is a look. You take a peek at a peak.
Setting aside the issue of spelling, the term is so overused that it's meaningless. For example, if you are publishing a "sneak peek" on a blog, there's nothing sneaky about it anymore; everyone can see it because it's now available on the web.
* More on this phenomenon on Wikipedia. My favorite example is that "sweetheart" is a corruption of the original word "sweetard." Tonight I'll test-drive that term of endearment on my lovely sweetard wife Mary and see how my etymological defense holds up as she beats me to a pulp.
You said:
Setting aside the issue of spelling, the term is so overused that it's meaningless. For example, if you are publishing a "sneak peek" on a blog, there's nothing sneaky about it anymore; everyone can see it because it's now available on the web.
*LOL* You are an absolute riot and I love it! Agreed 100%
Hey, I came to your site due to your luverly (please don't correct my spelling on that one ;-)) NaNoWriMo tool for Firefox. I saw only two comments on the Firefox extensions page for it, one wisting after a GUI meter (I heartily second that request!!) and one asking how to turn it off (duh, UNinstall it perhaps?)
Thanks so much for sharing the tool you wrote. Not sure if it'll help or annoy me but I'll give it a shot. This is my first NaNoWriMo (though, by far, not my first time writing a novel). I'm revved up to crank, just hoping it's not a classic "NaNo" of the "50,000 words of CRAP" sort.
Good luck to you. Join the Baen Barflies Working Group if you'd like. We're gonna be a little nutso, more so than the rest of the NaNo'ers methinks.
-sry
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