They are homonyms, which means they sound alike but have different spellings. What the journo should have written was “sneak peek”.
Classic Spelling Trap
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Classic Spelling Trap
Channel 7’s crawler journo has fallen for one of the English language’s classic spelling traps. 
They are homonyms, which means they sound alike but have different spellings. What the journo should have written was “sneak peek”.
They are homonyms, which means they sound alike but have different spellings. What the journo should have written was “sneak peek”.
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Re: Classic Spelling Trap
Ray, do you reckon after all our fault finding of the 'on screen crawlers' they were going to actually learn how the English language works. Every day there is some glaring issue or extremely bad example of the use of English grammar.
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Re: Classic Spelling Trap
"tanks" here--Greynomad wrote: ↑Thu Jun 02, 2022 6:18 pm Channel 7’s crawler journo has fallen for one of the English language’s classic spelling traps. 🤔
They are homonyms, which means they sound alike but have different spellings.
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What the journo should have written was “sneak peek”.
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Re: Classic Spelling Trap
You must remember most of these journo's English is not their native language .
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Re: Classic Spelling Trap
Maybe there was some obstacle blocking the coming events that require approaching with caution to pass the upper limits, but that was too wordy for the crawler ..... but now we have to consider the use of the word "crawler" for a flowing script that passes across the lower section of the screen ......... 
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Re: Classic Spelling Trap
Brian,
I reckon that even for some journos born in Oz of Australian parents, English is not their native language!
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Re: Classic Spelling Trap
This is what happens when the language taught in our schools is more of a "she'll be rite" ( right ) thing than going to the actual teaching of the Aus/ English language.
One thing that really P's me off is the "me and Joe" etc instead of the correct "Joe and I etc"
But when the system started with the phonetic crap all it did was raise a group of numptys that don't know how to use the language correctly, just read past it, and maybe you will understand what the writer means, but instead of getting a dictionary, the system is assuming that something or even anything you imagine will work for the author's meanings.
So we get things like
Breaks on a vehicle.( Brakes ) Last thing you want is something to break when you use the large pedal
Peak ( Peek, take a look at )
need I go on ?????
Ron
One thing that really P's me off is the "me and Joe" etc instead of the correct "Joe and I etc"
But when the system started with the phonetic crap all it did was raise a group of numptys that don't know how to use the language correctly, just read past it, and maybe you will understand what the writer means, but instead of getting a dictionary, the system is assuming that something or even anything you imagine will work for the author's meanings.
So we get things like
Breaks on a vehicle.( Brakes ) Last thing you want is something to break when you use the large pedal
Peak ( Peek, take a look at )
need I go on ?????
Ron
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Re: Classic Spelling Trap
I blame the metric system.
Didn't happen before that
Pommies are talking about going back to imperial....
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Didn't happen before that
Pommies are talking about going back to imperial....
Bernie.