Pecan - how do you say it?

[ashling]

I was going to make this a poll, but unfortunately, this Thanksgiving day I am unemployed, broke, soon to be homeless, and, sadly, poll-less.

So, tell me how you pronounce it and I'll tell you if you are right.
Also, tell what part of the country you are from.

Here are some choices:

pe kahn (hint, hint)

pe can

pee kahn

pee can (please do not use this unless you are in the car on the way to Grandmas house and the kid just cant wait)

[Magrittes Pipe]

1. The nut is a pe-kahn. The pie is a pee-can.

;)

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. The nut is pe-KAHN, the pie is PEE-kahn

Anyone who uses the "can" is obviously living with a substandard education and inability not to announce to the world their ignorance of their own ignorance.

it's just as bad as saying "EYE-talian" for "Italian".

[Magrittes Pipe]

3. Just what persuaded a good Wisconsonian to become a New Yorkite?

Of course, I am once again Ohioese, so I should talk.

[ashling]

11. Funny you should say that

Back in 1976 I was working as a temporary interviewer for the Texas Employment Commission (does anybody remember CETA?). Another temp. interviewer had just moved down here from Indiana.

We were discussing the Democratic primaries that year. She was a Birch Bayh supporter. I had voted for Fred Harris in the Texas primary, but went to the senatorial convention as a uncommited alternate ... prepared to commit to Carter. She said that Carter was ignorant (or some equally denigrating term) due to the fact that he had used the pronunciation EYE-talian in a recent foriegn policy speech. Simply put, she was wrong.

[In_The_Wind]

4. I pronounce it pe kahn.

I'm be send you good wishes for improvment in your life, ashling.

Happy Thanksgiving

[ashling]

6. Congratulations, you win!

Of course, you are already a winner in my book.


Your good wishes are already working. Our neighbors just brought over a full Thanksgiving meal for us, complete with cornbread dressing! ....

and pe kahn pie.

[In_The_Wind]

8. I'm so very glad to hear that, my friend.

I will keep you and your family in my heart.

May you Walk In Light.

Joani

[philosophie_en_rose]

5. peh-khan

:shrug:

[Call Me Wesley]

7. Pee Khan,

you might still have some time ...



:eyes:

[ashling]

15. Looks like Gengis Kahn

[Call Me Wesley]

16. Not exactly, it's

Khan from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

That's Gengis Kahn:


And he was no pie ... ;)

[ashling]

17. Terra Alert! Terra Alert!

looks sort of like Georgie w/ a mustache

[Deja Q]

9. pee-KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!

[ElsewheresDaughter]

10. i make the best friggen pe kahn pie this side of miss glady's georgia home

bar none!

[ashling]

12. Yee-ha!

I'LL take 2!

Trivia: the pecan is the state tree of Texas.

[Wapsie B]

13. pe can pee kahn

let's call the whole thing off.

[Misunderestimator]

14. I always said "pick-KAHN"

PEE-kahn pie but pick-KAHN by itself.

[Aristus]

18. "Slop jar". That's what goes with "pee can".

It's "pekahn."

[peekaloo]

19. pe-kahn

I hate them. My aunt had pecan trees and we used to have to "collect" them for her. Grrrrrrr. My brother enjoyed bouncing them off my head from a distance. Bastid. :-)