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RE: [OM] OT crappie & more OT

Subject: RE: [OM] OT crappie & more OT
From: Walt Wayman <HIWAYMAN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 18:23:36 -0400
>>And, yes, some geographically impoverished people pronounce "pecan" like
>>it's something kept by the bed and emptied in the morning.  Really
>>disgusting.

>Just curious -- how else would you pronounce it?

> Like the first part of peckin'? 
> Like bacon, but with a P instead of a B?
> Like piquant, but without the trailing t?

> I'm sure there's more ways to mutilate the vowels, but my imagination ran
>out..
 
> -- dan
 
Pecan: puh-KAHN.  Not: PEE-kan.

Walt



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