George Shirley wrote:
> On 3/24/2011 5:21 PM, zxcvbob wrote:
>> Doug Freyburger wrote:
>>
>>> So is it "pea-can" or "peh-kahn"? As long as it's in a pie or ground
>>> into nut butter, who cares.
>>
>>
>> A Pee-can is something a trucker keeps under the seat.
>> A peh-kahn is a something you eat, if the squirrels don't find it first.
>>
>> HTH :-)
>>
>> -Bob
>
> Around here it is called a puh-kahn.


We didn't really have a vowel at all in the first syllable where I
grew up. It was sort of p'kahn. So whether it came out "uh" or
"eh" or "i" didn't make much difference cuz it was so short -- just
as long as it weren't "ee". :-)

Bob