0
Guest Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

Sneak Peak of Sneak Peek

This might not be a grammar question but more like a word usage one. I have seen people use Sneak "Peak" everywhere to instead of Peek.

Is this is a mistake?
Thnx
  

Top answer

Hello Guest I'm an English learner from Japan. Could you allow me to try to answer your question? I think 'sneak peak' is a phrase born by misspelling 'sneak peek' (stealthy quick look).

— Paco2004

  • Hello Guest I'm an English learner from Japan.
  • Could you allow me to try to answer your question?
  • I think 'sneak peak' is a phrase born by misspelling 'sneak peek' (stealthy quick look).
  • 456,000 hits]).
  • I imagine they might have used "sneak peak" in the meaning of "Here is a hidden hottest spot".
Free · every Monday

Get the Weekly English Kit 📬

New words, one handy idiom, and a 2-minute quiz — delivered to your inbox to keep your streak alive.

6 Answers
0
Hello Guest

I'm an English learner from Japan. Could you allow me to try to answer your question?

I think 'sneak peak' is a phrase born by misspelling 'sneak peek' (stealthy quick look). But it is true many people are using 'sneak peak' as the headline phrase on their web pages.(google result: [sneak peak...242,000 hits] and [sneak peek ...456,000 hits]). I imagine they might
0
0
Don't underestimate the inability of most English speakers to spell their language, Paco! I had a look at the first couple of pages of the 242,000 and none of them seem aware of any punning value in 'peek/peak'. I prefer your initial assessment: 'sneak' attracts 'peak'. Well, at least they didn't write 'sneek peek'... did they?...

Omigoodness! 45,000 hits!
0
0
Hello Mr Micawber

I'm wondering what JTT would say when he find so many people are using 'sneak peak'. Would he say 'sneak peak' is a contextually (or descriptively) right spelling?


paco
0
0
It will be interesting to see, Paco.
0
0
I agree with Paco's assessment. I wonder how I can tell my husband that I am right when my son's second grade teacher's keeps sending out e-mails every week saying sneak peak. He told me that I am wrong and that sneak peak and sneak peek are interchangeable according to Cambridge dictionary. I looked up Cambridge dictionary and its definition: an opportunity to see something before it is official
0
0
AnonymousHe told me that I am wrong and that sneak peak and sneak peek are interchangeable according to Cambridge dictionary.
He doesn't know how to use a dictionary. I just looked at the Cambridge dictionary on-line and the only definition of "peak", the noun is "the pointed top of a mountain, or the mountain itself". I can't see how a quick look at
0

Related Questions