The Breaking of the English Language Should "Pique" Your Interest

I just finished writing an email for work purposes, and during that process I wanted to use the expression "pique your interest". It was then I realized I wasn't exactly sure how to spell the word in that context. Was it "peak", "peek", "pique", or something entirely different?

So what's a guy to do? Google search, of course. It's here where I found a great blog entry from Cicada Song about people using the expression. The correct spelling is "pique", but do more people use it correctly or incorrectly? Her Google search results:

"peaked her interest" = 455
"peaked his interest" = 965
"peaked their interest" = 857,000

"peeked her interest" = 428,000
"peeked his interest" = 342,000
"peeked their interest" = 238,000

"piqued her interest" = 27,000
"piqued his interest" = 45,300
"piqued their interest" = 18,900

Fascinating results. Not only do the majority of people on the Internet not know how to properly spell out the expression, but weren't even close. At least with "peaked", it sort of reads like you raised interest, which is sort of what "piqued" means (check the definition here) but "peeked" has nothing to do with anything in the way "piqued your interest" is supposed to.

What does that say about our grasp of the English language? What does that say about anything? I don't know, I just found it interesting and worth sharing.