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  • #1

    Another "How do you pronounce it?"

    The word: "pecan".

    Do you pronounce it "pee-can"?

    Do you pronounce it "pee-con"?

    Or do you pronounce it "p'con" (puh-con), which is the correct way?
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    I grew up in the south. It's peh-KAHN.
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    • #3
      I do not over pronounce the first syllable, but say it more like the third option. I’m from New England, but live in the south, for the record.

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      • #4
        P'KAWN, o' course, Dawwwwlin'!

        And never, ever "pee-kan"...That's another word for porta-potties! O_O
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        • #5
          Awesome! Seems like the 4 of you say it the correct way!

          I always jokingly tell people it's not "pee-can", because that's a can you pee in.

          I was born and raised in Texas, so I say it the 3rd way, myself. My maternal grandmother used to have a pecan tree in her back yard. There would be many days when I'd be over there and either pick the pecans up off the ground, or climb up in the tree and give the limbs a good shaking.

          Pick up the fallen pecans, crack the shells, eat...
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          • #6
            Quoth mjr View Post

            Pick up the fallen pecans, *check for worm holes in the shell*, crack the shells, eat...
            Fixed that for you. It only takes cracking open one or two pecans to discover the shell filled with whatever sort of grub it is to learn to look for those tiny little holes.
            Last edited by EricKei; 12-02-2017, 12:20 AM.
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            • #7
              Quoth Kittish View Post
              Fixed that for you. It only takes cracking open one or two pecans to discover the shell filled with whatever sort of grub it is to learn to look for those tiny little holes.
              Especially if you're cracking them in your mouth and spitting out the shells...
              I quit doing that after a rancid brazil nut...
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              • #8
                Quoth Kittish View Post
                Fixed that for you. It only takes cracking open one or two pecans to discover the shell filled with whatever sort of grub it is to learn to look for those tiny little holes.
                Of the thousands of pecans my family cracked when I was growing up, we never found a worm in one of them.

                We had relatives with pecan trees and got lots of free nuts over the years. My father had a mechanical nut cracker that he would use to crack pecans while he watched TV. My mother would then bake them into delicious goodies. Those were the days.
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                • #9
                  Lots of places I lived growing up had pecan trees growing wild or semi-wild. I'd often gather a bucket or two of the nuts, but had to do all the shelling the hard way. Most of them got eaten just plain, my female parental unit was not a baker.
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                  • #10
                    The Pee-Can song and story: Handy House by Cheryl Wheeler.
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