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Homophones!!!

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No, nothing about gender. This is probably a waste of time, BUT a romantic table in a restaurant is 'DISCREET'. 'Discrete' means 'separate' or discontinuous. You 'PIQUE' someone's interest, or have a 'fit of PIQUE'. You 'peek' at someone (discreetly) and you climb a mountain peak. Surely these are obvious?
Okay. I am a pedant. Perhaps anally retentive. But the whole point of language is to communicate, and to do so as accurately as possible. I blame the education system which went down hill sometime in the sixties or thereabouts.
There. I've had my rant...

 

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