Are you a yankee?

[mnehring]

Pee-can is what you take camping when you don’t want to crawl out of your tent.

[maine-iac7]

It’s an Algonquian word,.... The original would be more like “Pakan” since the verb is Pake - to crack nuts

''sactly right.

That's the way I've always said it - and my family were in Maine long before Maine was Maine.

[Malone LaVeigh]

Cute test. I’m originally from NY but I’ve been living in Louisiana for 35 years. Still, I only scored 26% Dixie.

[gunnyg]

Do “Yankee” really mean what some think it do???

http://gunnyg.wordpress.com/2008/09/29/the-myth-of-the-morally-superior-yankee-by-thomas-j-dilorenzo/

[cripplecreek]

[Badabing Badablonde]

Alot of words suffer from the whole Yankee thing......pecan, cement, Caribbean......

[Celtic Conservative]

I'm a yankee. My daddy moved to North Carolina to stay 10 years ago. That makes him a "damned yankee".

CC

[Paine in the Neck]

When I lived in Mass it was PEE-kan. Here in Tx it is p’KAHN.

[Bikkuri]

Lol :)

I pronounce it the same as you.. and it is honestly a bit annoying to hear PEE-can ...

If I need to PEE and there is no toilet around... I find a can to PEE in... a PEE-can ;^)

[dunblak]

Exactly correct...I’m seventy plus and knew my grandmother who was born in the last year of the War for Southern Independence and she pronounced it “puh kahn” which says to me that it is likely her ancestors all the way back to their arrival in Charleston in 1696 pronounced it the same way. Now Yankees may pronounce it differently but, hey, those trees don’t grow up there so they are entitled to be incorrect.

[Prospero]

I'm a Texan living in NC, and I've run across the same miscommunication using the same word. NC has mid-Atlantic and even Elizabethan influences that often misfire in our Pan-Mississippi ear, and vice versa.

You were pronouncing it "rat," and so was she.

[nodumbblonde]

55% Dixie.

Do I get extra credit for knowing what “bless his/her heart” really means?

;)

[Bikkuri]

lol :)

My version..

;^)

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I’m from the DEEP south. All Americans are Yankees

[Bikkuri]

You should have asked her if they bred sheep as part of the bakery ;)

[Bikkuri]

Whomever made these maps has their spacing all screwed up... Texas and anything NORTH of Texas is CENTRAL..

I hope these people get glasses some day (*.o)

[Bikkuri]

Anyone that called me a yankee lost a tooth or 2..

[cripplecreek]

Obviously. People from Fargo do not sound like people from Toledo.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

If you are from the USA that's what you are to most of the world.

Adults usually chuckle over it, those that should still be at the kiddy table tend to have tantrums.

[ClearBlueSky]

Native New Orleanian- Pralines were created here- pronounced
prah-leens.
Pecans are Puh-cawns. Don’t know anyone who says it differently.