pee - CAN
PEE - kahn
pee -KAHN
pick - ANN
pick -AHN
In Texas, the 'p' is silent...
Posted on 09/07/2011 7:26:08 AM PDT by no gnu taxes
Who cares? It’s a stupid nut that’s used to make really good pies and rolls, y’all.
My wife's family is from alabama and they all say pee-can . I'm from the louisiana bayou country and we all know what a pee-can is.
Like you I pronounce it puh-KAHN .
Being from North Carolina - we always called them puh-KAHNS. Those from Nawth Kalina called em PEE cans.
With a lowercase "y."
I’m from CT, and split the difference: pee-CAN.
Actually, we had an argument in my freshman dorm.
We had a guy from California, Louisiana, Indiana, Pittsburgh and me (Connecticut).
We had five different pronunciations.
The Louisiana guy pronounced it PEE-kin.
LOL! Reminds me of my encounter with the owner of a bakery in Shirley, Long Island many years ago. I walked in and asked the lady behind the counter “do ya’all have any cheese Danish.” She smiled broadly and called out over her shoulder to the owner in the back room, “HEY MORT! COME OUT HERE AND LISTEN TA’ DIS’ MAN TALK!” She turns to me and says, “Ya’all? Yoose must be from da’ south!” I replied, “Well ah yes, mam. Virginia actually...” She interrupted with “Go ahead. Talk some more...HEY, MORT! GET OUT HERE!”
Friends from Louisville, KY consider themselves to be southerners. They talk funny, too. ‘Terlit’ for ‘toilet’. ‘Pee-OH-ny’ for ‘peony’.
Derby Day gets them all excited.
I actually think that they have more obvious ‘southern’ accents than Tennessee or Alabama.
SW Pennsylvania is an interesting blend of cultures-- northeast elitists, southern redneck and calm midwesterners all meet here. Then you throw in the ethnics-- Slavs, Poles, Irish, Italian, Amish, German, Greek, Black and Dutch-- you get some of the finest eating (and biggest concentration of fat people) in the USA.
Anything north or northeast of Waco is yankee.
Yep, my Alabama relatives say pee-can. Here in Iowa I’ve heard various: puh-con, pay-con, pee-con, and very rarely pee-can.
I’m a Yankee fan and I say “boston soxs”
It's wrong everywhere ;-)
Forget how to say "pecans"..the real tough one to pronounce is "pralines"
I got a 0
And in Puerto Rico, Americans from the mainland are “Jankees”.
Or pay can, as in don’t let yer horse eat them pay cans, he’ll colic up pardner.
I’m an authority on this subject. One parent was from Alabama and the other from Connecticut and I was brought up as a Yankee.
The Alabama parent taught me to say pe-KAHN because it was more polite than PEE-can, which was said all over Alabama.
The CT parent had never had them so didn’t have a clue.
Over the years I’ve made many pecan pies and my grownup kids have never heard of PEE-cans except maybe at keggers.
Tell me about it. I’m in Hazel Park. I think I’ll carry around a bag of pecans today and ask folks how to pronounce it. I’ll either get my answer, or get punched out.
For a while I worked in the Pleasant Grove area of Dallas (which is very much like Hazel Park). There was a part of that called “Pecan Heights” which at one time was a city. I was the source of a lot of amusement when I tried to pronounce it.
I also learned the correct pronunciation of the local street called St. Augustine. Apparently they pronounce it AWW Gust Teen there.
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