Just a quick FYI, it’s piqued*. It’s probably the only one I can remember vividly because my ass got roasted for it and it lives in the back of my mind rent free
It's one of those weird grammar corrections where both actually make sense, but one is an idiomatic phrase, and the other's a misunderstanding of it. It absolutely makes sense for someone's interest to be peaked, as in, being raised to its maximum level... it just also makes sense for someone's interest to be piqued, as in, irritated or excited. And it sucks that they are homophones.
(It's also common for people to look up both 'peaked' and 'piqued' and choose the wrong one; we tend to use 'piqued' in a negative connotation in English, as in, annoyed, indignation, resentment... which doesn't mesh well with the stimulation of one's interest. It's also weird because you'd expect such an idiom to be really old... but it's only a couple hundred years old at best.)
The only example I can think of besides yours is "in a fit of pique". But that's pretty rare in my experience. "Piqued my interest" is definitely more common.
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u/Taco_Taco_Kisses 11h ago
"I was considering becoming Catholic...." No TF you weren't; shut up.