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How Do You Say Pecan? Mapping Food Dialect Trends Across the U.S.
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| June 6, 2013
| By Jessy Yancey
Posted on 12/20/2017 1:07:03 PM PST by Red Badger
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To: Mears
And “sure” is pronounced “shu-ah”.
How about ‘aunt’ and ‘bath’?
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posted on
12/20/2017 2:44:31 PM PST
by
Exit148
((Loose Chnge Club founder) Put yours aside for the next Freepathon!)
To: Red Badger
Doesn’t matter. It’s pronounced “Pea-can”
Everybody else is wrong. I’m from Georgia, where we grow the best in the Multi-verse, so, we know.
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posted on
12/20/2017 2:48:07 PM PST
by
Conan the Librarian
(The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
To: Conan the Librarian
There are people from Texas that would argue with you about that.................
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posted on
12/20/2017 2:49:18 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: Red Badger
What is it with those people? It is “PEA kahn”.
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posted on
12/20/2017 2:52:33 PM PST
by
AceMineral
(One day men will beg for chains.)
To: AceMineral
Yes we Can!
Say Pee Can!.................
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posted on
12/20/2017 2:53:50 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: Red Badger
Have always call it pick-AHN.
What difference does it make?
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posted on
12/20/2017 2:58:37 PM PST
by
upchuck
("Ex-obama" ... That phrase itself honors America. ~ h/t glennaro)
To: blam
I’ve been picking pecans for a solid month now... first year they’ve been both ~affordable and good-quality in a while. Sprouts, if you have them, has nice fat ones for $3.99/lb. One thing I haven’t seen sold in the stores for a....decade? are the huge, long papershells.
If you have the small, self-sowing natives whose nuts are
smaller than 1”, smashing them is one of the most nutritious things your chickens can snack on.
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posted on
12/20/2017 2:58:42 PM PST
by
txhurl
(Banana Republicans, as far as the eye can see)
To: yarddog
was the Stuckys pecan logs. I have no idea if they are still in business but havent seen one in many years.
No, but BUC-EES (get the homophonic naming?) has the exact inventory Stuckey’s did, especially the truckstop stores.
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posted on
12/20/2017 3:00:23 PM PST
by
txhurl
(Banana Republicans, as far as the eye can see)
To: Red Badger
I’m from South Louisiana and my wife is from South Carolina. This subject has been the source of many a discussion and disagreement for 37 years of marriage. From a pup I remember the fall and picking up, cracking and eating puh-kahns. She says Pee cans and I always think of a coffee can in a boat that was used to discretely relieve myself. It never helps when I tell her that how we say it in the DEEP south.
To: Red Badger
One picks up PEE-cans and eats Pee-Kahn pie.
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posted on
12/20/2017 3:28:53 PM PST
by
georgiarat
(The most expensive thing in the world is a cheap Army and Navy. - Carl Vinson)
To: Red Badger
pick-AHNs in Louisiana, cher
To: Red Badger
Theyre trying to be politically correct and not offend anyone. That Wisconsin area is PEA-con, like as in a small green leguminous criminal. That “kahn” sound, that fake proper Queens Englishy sound that you hear some places back East isnt present in our speech at all. I used to hear PEEK-on but that seems to have died out with the old farmers for the most part.
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posted on
12/20/2017 3:57:26 PM PST
by
gnarledmaw
(Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
To: airborne
My grandad kept a Folgers coffee can next to the bed to pee in. I’ll never forget the smell of stale piss and cigarette butts.
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posted on
12/20/2017 4:09:50 PM PST
by
gop4lyf
(Gay marriage is neither. Democrats are the party of sore losers and pedophiles.)
To: Mears
Ive noticed locally we tend to use pronounce the word differently to suggest something slightly different. For example, a "route' (like "cow") is the thing you plan before hand on a map, a "route" (like "root") is the path you actually took to get somewhere. That means paperboys and highway plans have a "cow" sound, when I got lost in the blizzard and found my way to your house anyway, I have a "root" sound.
How is Caribbean pronounced? Well, if Im going on a cruise ship or talking about aquatic wildlife, then thats something like care-rih-BE-an, the islands, those are ca-RIH-be-uhn.
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posted on
12/20/2017 4:15:53 PM PST
by
gnarledmaw
(Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
To: Red Badger
I'm a pine-cone.
Male Pee-Can (in Amsterdam)
Female Pee-Can
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To: Pray All Day
Down here on the Upper East Side Of The South Side, we call them "pink corn".
To: Red Badger
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posted on
12/20/2017 5:05:05 PM PST
by
FrdmLvr
(“What Happened you ask?...Ma’am, you got your ass kicked.” Bannon)
To: Red Badger
But, they would be mistaken. :D
Actually ALL properly grown and harvested Pea-cans are great!
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posted on
12/20/2017 5:10:09 PM PST
by
Conan the Librarian
(The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
To: Sans-Culotte
I was born in Alabama. My relatives and I all say puh-KAHN. I have lived in Texas for 48 years. Everybody I know here likewise says puh-KAHN.
Yup, me, too. Spent 32 years in Texas, and I never heard anything except “puh-kahn”. I have heard some hilarious version of pecan, however. But, all in all, there is nothing like a pecan pie!! Pretty damned good baked with light coating of butter and salt, too. Geez, now I’m going to have to order some!!
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posted on
12/20/2017 5:34:31 PM PST
by
Bodega
(we are developing less and less common sense...world wide)
To: forgotten man
How do you pronounce the `a’ in taco?
Like the `a’ in bad, or the `a’ in Pa?
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posted on
12/20/2017 6:16:34 PM PST
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all white armed conservatives)
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