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To: Red Badger
Pecan

""Pecan" is from an Algonquian word variously referring to pecans, walnuts and hickory nuts,[3] or more broadly to any nut requiring a stone to crack.[4] There are many variant pronunciations, some regional and others not.[5] The most common American pronunciation is /piˈkɑːn/; the most common British one is /pɪˈkæn/.[5] Unusually, there is little agreement in the United States, even regionally, as to the "correct" pronunciation.[6]"

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48 posted on 12/20/2017 1:58:32 PM PST by blam
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To: blam

That’s right. There are NO pecan trees along the TX Gulf coast, they’re weeds in Austin. Must be the salt in the sea breeze that thwarts them?


52 posted on 12/20/2017 2:13:58 PM PST by txhurl (Banana Republicans, as far as the eye can see)
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