… This is what comes of not knowing the difference between principle and principal. The mistake follows you around, finally ending up on your US Foreign Policy syllabus:
The aim of this course is to examine the formation of U.S. foreign policy. The principle questions include…
Your uncertainty about this and other conundrums gnaws at you until late one night you turn on all the lights, get out one of your many guns, and shoot at the ceiling of your university-owned house forty times.
Lesson: Learn your homophone pairs.