On Mar 24, 5:39*pm, Dave Smith > wrote:
> On 24/03/2011 6:21 PM, zxcvbob wrote:
>
> > Doug Freyburger wrote:
>
> >> So is it "pea-can" or "peh-kahn"? As long as it's in a pie or ground
> >> into nut butter, who cares.
>
> > A Pee-can is something a trucker keeps under the seat.
>
> Nope.... That is a **** bottle
>
> > A peh-kahn is a something you eat, if the squirrels don't find it first..
>
> I was close to 50 before I ever heard that pronunciation.

>
>
I've lived in the South all my life and 'peh-kahn' is the way folks
around here pronounce it. Pee-can is the way television personalities
pronounce it.