On 24/03/2011 7:11 PM, Christine Dabney wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:00:20 -0700 (PDT), ItsJoanNotJoann
> > wrote:
>
>> On Mar 24, 5:39 pm, Dave > wrote:
>>
>>>> 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.
>
> Yep, that is what I grew up with too, living in VA.
>

The Merriam Webster online dictinary gives three different
pronunciations, pi-kahn, pi-kan, pee-kan.