Dora wrote:
> 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.

Sounds like we can draw new battle lines.

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Jean B.