I think you are being a bit harsh here Dr. A. The characters for mouth and erect are a rectangle and a square respectively, and which one is in the compound pictogram is pretty impossible to call just looking at them. As for the 'small table', another site showing the
Kanji character for ship clearly show that the top element is not the one for table. In fact if you look at the stroke order diagram on that page, and then the one for the
'mouth' radical and the
'erect' radical it is pretty clear that it is indeed the one for 'mouth' which is composed from 3 separate strokes.
I think that the idea this has something to do with Noah's ark is nonsense, but I don't think Peg has what the actual characters themselves are mixed up.
TTFN,
WK