pegged > pecked an eggcorn?

Mon Mar 24 03:09:14 UTC 2008

The person who wrote another comment claiming that 'pecked' was a typo.

Any other results on Google supporting the usage?

Herb Stahlke wrote:
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> In the comments section on the dialect test site Tom referred us to is the
> following:
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> Jon said:
> Mar 6 '08, 8:56PM
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> It got me pecked as from Chicago, it was 100% correct.And I always thought,
> only "other people" had accents.
> "Pecked," in this sense, isn't in the eggcorn database.  Is it one?
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> Herb
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