pegged > pecked an eggcorn?

[Herb Stahlke]

I googled "pecked as" and got 1500 hits.  I checked the first hundred, and,
with the exception of the example I cited below, all of them referred to
birds pecking, to pecking as a way of making an image on rock, or the
expression "hen-pecked."  I think this one qualifies as a typo.

Herb

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Herb Stahlke <hfwstahlke at gmail.com> 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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