pegged > pecked an eggcorn?

[Mark Mandel]

Odd kind of typo, then. <gg> -> <ck>? That's not plausible as a
typographical error, only as a slip of the mind. I'd accept it as a
transcription or a speako -- mistakenly dictating the wrong word-- if there
is evidence that it was dictated, either to a human or to SR software.

Now, I know I mistakenly type homophones or near-homophones instead of the
words I want, so a slip of that sort is a real possibility. But this example
could also be the result of a misheard idiom, a nascent eggcorn.

m a m

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 11:29 PM, Herb Stahlke <hfwstahlke at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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> > Subject:      pegged > pecked an eggcorn?
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> >
> > In the comments section on the dialect test site Tom referred us to is
> the
> > following:
> >
> > Jon said:
> > Mar 6 '08, 8:56PM
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > Herb
> >
>

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