Sneaking up a hill

Sneak a peek at this. Maybe the writer of “Daytime in No Time” on Yahoo! TV was thinking about sneaking up a mountain or something:

Hear a peak, there a peak

Let’s overlook the erroneous hyphen and the misplaced period (which belongs before the closing quotation mark) and focus on the sneak peak in this blog on Yahoo! Music:

Perhaps you have some idea how one would hear a peak: Do you have to be really, really quiet and put your ear up to its foothills?

Sneak a peek at the real Taylor Lautner

No, I don’t mean “sneak a peak.” That would be wrong, but that’s what the writer on Yahoo! Movies says:

Unfortunately, she also misspells a  name:

The real star is Taylor Lautner.

Exclusive sneak peak

You’re getting an exclusive sneak peak of “Weather Girl” on Yahoo! Shine:

Personally, I’d prefer a sneak peek.

A peek at twin peaks

This photo caption on Yahoo! Shine mistakes peak for the correct peek:

The only peaks in the photo are in Ms. Handler’s décolletage.

Mt. Everest: An exclusive peak

An exclusive peak? Would that be like Mt. Everest? You can get a peek at it on Yahoo! TV:

A week’s sneak peeks

Just because sneak and peak rhyme, don’t assume they are spelled the same. Take this example from Yahoo! Shine:

Keep in mind that peek also rhymes with week, and sometimes that’s the spelling it should emulate, especially if you mean a “quick glance.”

Transformers game at its peak

The Transformers game has reached a peak, according to Yahoo! Games:

The only reason I can see for this common error is that sneak and peak rhyme, so what-the-heck, let’s just spell them alike.

Take a peek at this!

I took a peek at this “helpful” hint from Yahoo! Real Estate and got totally distracted by the error:

They may be tops, but it’s not a peak

Take a peek at this headline on the Yahoo! front page:

The teams heading to March Madness may be at the peak of the list, their players may be in peak condition, and the projections may pique your interest, but if you want a sneaky look-see at the details, then you’ll have to take a peek.