Probably even closer to stick/stuck, and perhaps introduced on that analogy by nonnative-anglophone immigrants for whom long e and short i were allophones of a single phoneme.

Nigel says "There's a few of us..." but I was raised to say "There're a few of us..." (construing "a few" as plural). When and where I grew up (Seattle, b. 1954) "snuck" was normal colloquial but incorrect formal usage.

Haruo