Pecan

[Cobalt Violet]

How do you pronounce this word.

These are the ways it is pronounced in America English.

according to Websters:

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=pecan&x=11&y=14

[alittlelark]

1. 'anaphalactic shock producer'

for me anyway

[Shoeempress]

13. Ditto.

[lapfog_1]

18. same here - n/t

Don't you just hate it when someone gives you, say, oatmeal
cookies with crushed walnuts or something... and when you ask
"Does this have any nuts in it?", they blithely answer "no"...
and then ...

[short bus president]

26. I'm sorta with y'all on that.

Except they just make my throat itchy, they don't threaten my life. Still, I've learned to prefer Chess Pie over Pecan Pie because of the reaction.

[Burma Jones]

2. Pronounced just like the coffee can we kept in the back of the car

on those long trips..............

[Cobalt Violet]

4. Same here. And it kills my Texan boyfriend.

:)

[Debi]

6. Ewwww

I think I like the death knell from post number one better than that visual clue!

[amber dog democrat]

3. Only Yankees call them Pee-cans.

We call them puh-cawns.

[GreenPartyVoter]

11. Down-Eastah here, and it surely is PEE-can. *g*

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[amber dog democrat]

14. I can see that. By the way I have a HUGE respect for

your maritime heritage - from fishing and coasting schooners to 19th C watercraft of all kinds. Especially with that accent. Pee-can it is, full & by...and give her what she steers the best,

Meanwhile, our Confederate Pecans are plucking away on banjos on the levee and waiting for the Reconstruction Chimp carpetbaggers & scalliwags to leave.

I think its high time to make a puh-cawn pie.

[GreenPartyVoter]

16. Sadly enough, I come from a maritime heritage but can't

tell the difference between a boat rigged out for scallops or shrimp, or a barkentine or a yawl. :(

I plan on makin' a pecan pie for Thanksgiving. The holiday just isn't right without punkin pie, pecan pie, and apple crisp. *l*

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[Zing Zing Zingbah]

19. I say pee-can

I'm from Maine. Your theory on this might be true.

[GreenPartyVoter]

25. Howdy other Mainah!

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[Placebo]

5. Pee-can.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

7. peh-KAHN

That's what my Gramma from 'Bama always said...

[eek]

10. ditto my gramma from 'bama!

peh-kahn' is the more gentile way.
coarse, oafish sorts say PEE con

Similarly: Prahleen, not prayleen


Orregun not Are re-gone

[amber dog democrat]

15. and ROE-dee-o

not Roe DAY oh. & nawlins, not New Orleeans

[Bunny]

8. Who cares how they're pronounced?

Put some in a pie and make me a coffee!!

j/k :D

For the record, it's Puh-KAHN.

[RubyDuby in GA]

9. pee can

and anyone who says differently is a damnyankee.

:)

[lakemonster11]

20. In TN it's puh-kahn

[RubyDuby in GA]

22. Well TN is north of us

so I think damnyankee applies :)

:hi: Tennessee folks!

[trof]

12. Other: puh-KAHN

We grow 'em and I know.

[mcscajun]

17. Other: Sometimes one way...sometimes another.

I grew up in the Northeast, so my default is PE-can. Since being exposed to the Cajun thing and hearing the southern pronunciation, I sometimes say pi-kahn (especially right after hearing it that way.)

[winston61]

21. down here in Texas

now Gawd dammit, down here in Texass we say PEA-KAWN.

[Phillycat]

23. peeCAN.

Am I the only one? And I'm from the Northeast.

[Squatch]

24. Assorted nuts