[rwfromkansas]

true....I say "cahn" here.

[yarddog]

The reason "pi-kahn" and "pea-can with the emphasis on can" intrigues me is that I once dated a little cutie from SE Georgia.

I am from NW Florida, and noticed we had just about identical usage on all words, slang etc. but that was the one word which we used differently.

I have a feeling the two areas were settled by identical ethnic groups so the pecan pronunciation must have been a recent divergence.