My SO (a native Texan) says "puh-cahn." My description: that's a short "u",
short "a" and with the "puh" being essentially a plosive and the "cahn"
being slightly drawn out over the "a."
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Scott Gomez
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From: Daniel J. Mitchell [mailto:DanielMitchell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Subject: RE: [OM] OT crappie & more OT
> And, yes, some geographically impoverished people pronounce "pecan" like
> it's something kept by the bed and emptied in the morning. Really
> disgusting.
Just curious -- how else would you pronounce it?
Like the first part of peckin'?
Like bacon, but with a P instead of a B?
Like piquant, but without the trailing t?
I'm sure there's more ways to mutilate the vowels, but my imagination ran
out..
-- dan
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