Dave Smith wrote:
> On 24/03/2011 7:11 PM, Christine Dabney wrote:
>> On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:00:20 -0700 (PDT), ItsJoanNotJoann
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On Mar 24, 5:39 pm, Dave > wrote:
>>>
>>>>> A peh-kahn is a something you eat, if the squirrels don't find
>>>>> it
>>>>> first.
>>>>
>>>> I was close to 50 before I ever heard that pronunciation.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I've lived in the South all my life and 'peh-kahn' is the way
>>> folks
>>> around here pronounce it. Pee-can is the way television
>>> personalities pronounce it.
>>
>> Yep, that is what I grew up with too, living in VA.
>>
>
> The Merriam Webster online dictinary gives three different
> pronunciations, pi-kahn, pi-kan, pee-kan.

Then it's pi-kahn, here in Maryland.