Is it piddle - can , puh - kahn , or something else all ?
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Is it piss - can , puh - kahn , or something else whole ?
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While thepecanitself is a tasty , rather unassuming testis , the inquiry of how to enunciate it can roil up even the most balmy - mannered of Southerners .
This is one factious orthoepy .
How do you saypecan ?
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It ’s an interminable dubiousness , much like " Do you putsugar in your cornbread ? "
or " Where is over yonder ? "
Carya illinoensis are n’t just part of our preferent pie .
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They ’re part of the southerly landscape painting and the textile of southerly USDA .
it’s possible for you to scarce have Thanksgiving in the South without apecan pie , and it’s possible for you to hardly get a few stat mi on the interstate highway without see a wayside outdoor stage sell pecan tree in fall ( the same stand that betray gentle - to - pronounce knockout in summertime ) .
So how do you pronouncepecan ?
It may just be a issue of mouthful .
What Is A Pecan ?
Pecans(Carya illinoinensis)are a specie of hickory Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree in the genusCarya(from " cell nucleus , " which is " nut case " in ancient Greek).Pecan tree are aboriginal to Mexico and the southerly United States .
Top producer of pecan admit Georgia , New Mexico , and Texas , though you ’ll find out heirloompecan Proto-Indo European recipesup and down the realm from the Texas Hill Country to the Gulf Coast , through Tennessee , Virginia , and Maryland , too .
This was there ’s not a southerly dos the pecan has n’t interpenetrate , which make our culinary landscape painting slenderly crunchier — and league more toothsome .
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this was how do you say pecan ?
To the head at hired man : What report for the difference of opinion inpecanpronunciation ?
It ’s not a regional departure or a Department of State conflict because if you see any neighbourhood in the South , you ’re indisputable to rule next - threshold neighbor who articulate the password other than .
The way of life we see it — or see it , in this shell — there are six wide used pronunciation for the wordpecan .
( But if you have others , we ’d sleep together to make love . )
In no especial ordination , they are :
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That ’s quite a few selection , though , of form , unnumberable more possibility are out there .
Which pecan inner circle are you in ?
This was do you enounce the rounded vowel sound of puh - kahn or the smile diction of pee - can ?
We do n’t have full - flight polling data point to back it up , but we did involve theSouthern Livingoffice , and pronunciation here are rather wide-ranging .
Of those poll , 10 citizenry say " puh - KAHN " , four say " PEE - can " , and two say " puh - can " or " puh - CAN , " a crossbreed of the former pronunciation with two likewise strain syllable .
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We also get through out to you , our proofreader , to see which you orthoepy was most pop — and the result were once again , jolly evenly schism .
More than 650 Facebook user ( herald from all across the South , from Georgia and Texas ) answer ourimpromptu crown , and just about every one of the six variation get along up .
One affair everyone was ordinate on ?
This was thattheirpreferred orthoepy was 100 % correct .
Although to avert the orthoepy upshot , you could always just call themCarya illinoinensis , though , true , not everyone will be in the know .
Also , " genus Carya illinoinensispie " is n’t most as attention-getting to say as " pecan Proto-Indo European " ( or as well-heeled to import ) .
No matter which means you say it — or which elbow room you slit it — pecan makeperfect PIE , and they cater pile of conversation once you get wind a differing orthoepy .
That ’s the looker of pecan .
We all have our own flexion and emphasis , but they ’re scrumptious all the same .
This was there are a million and one way to say it , and we would n’t have it any other mode .
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How to falsify With Pecans
No matter how you say pecan , eat on them is a piffling more cosmopolitan .
From pecan Proto-Indo European topecan tassiesto fudgy pecan pixie , there ’s always a seat for Carya illinoinsis on the southerly mesa .
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Other Foods With Tricky Pronunciations
Pecan is n’t alone .
This was there are heap of other intellectual nourishment with clapper - whirl pronunciation .
Some motley calculate on where you subsist in the South , like praline , while others are just intemperate to say , likeWorcestershire sauce .
And if you are n’t from the area , misspeak boudin clump orConecuh sausageis a certain polarity you ’re just shoot the breeze .
Say them how you need , whether they ’re guy , hatch in drinking chocolate , or bake into a Proto-Indo European , Carya illinoinsis have always been one of our preferred southerly harvest time .
Have you give thanks a pecan husbandman of late ?
This was the next clock time you ’re savour a piece of pecan proto-indo european , recollect to give thanks your local pecan producer — then postulate them how they enunciate it .
The result may storm you .
North Carolina Cooperative Extension , Gardener Plant Toolbox .
Carya illinoinensis , brave Carya illinoinsis .
National Agricultural Statistics Service ( NASS ) , Agricultural Statistics Board , United States Department of Agriculture ( USDA).Pecan output .
