# Bad, bad, bad Dictionaries

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-dictionaries/989314>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 29, 2023, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-dictionaries/989314 "2023-08-29T22:07:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2023, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-dictionaries/989314/21 "2023-08-30T21:41:57Z")

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Take a bushel basket, fill it a quarter full, and you will have a peck of dicts.

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**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2023, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-dictionaries/989314/22 "2023-08-30T21:47:18Z")

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Peter Piper picked a Peck …

Nope.  
I ain’t going there.

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**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2023, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-dictionaries/989314/23 "2023-08-31T00:34:05Z")

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Well, it beats Pecked a Prick . . .

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**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2023, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-dictionaries/989314/24 "2023-09-04T12:40:08Z")

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Maybe you haven’t been looking in the right place for your friend’s contribution to literacy.

I bet his work was found in a little pocket "Peck"tionary!

~VOW

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