"Jean B." > wrote in :

> 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.
>


Dora's version is much the same as we get on TV here, from the snobs.


Pee-carrrrrn.


I've always called them pee-cans.

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