[cripplecreek]

I say PEE-Khan.

Southern Michigan has a lot of southerners and its transformed our accents.

[Vigilanteman]

I say PEE-Khan as well. Akways have and don't know why, although I've lived in Wyoming, California, Idaho, Utah, Colorado, Kansas, both Dakotas, Minnesota, Japan, South Carolina and Pennsylvania.

SW Pennsylvania is an interesting blend of cultures-- northeast elitists, southern redneck and calm midwesterners all meet here. Then you throw in the ethnics-- Slavs, Poles, Irish, Italian, Amish, German, Greek, Black and Dutch-- you get some of the finest eating (and biggest concentration of fat people) in the USA.

[Larry Lucido]

Tell me about it. I’m in Hazel Park. I think I’ll carry around a bag of pecans today and ask folks how to pronounce it. I’ll either get my answer, or get punched out.

For a while I worked in the Pleasant Grove area of Dallas (which is very much like Hazel Park). There was a part of that called “Pecan Heights” which at one time was a city. I was the source of a lot of amusement when I tried to pronounce it.

I also learned the correct pronunciation of the local street called St. Augustine. Apparently they pronounce it AWW Gust Teen there.