there's a commercial that keeps coming on that uses pe-khan and it drives me INSANE.

its like people who come here and think the "Duane" in "Duane Reade" is pronounced "doo-juan."

umm no, idiot. its "doo-wayne." then again, Houston St. is pronounced "House-ton."

Rather interesting test:
44% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.

yeah there we go, can't stand that one.

I say pee-can.
Then again, I also said nuke-you-lar, until W. caught so much crap for it.

I use puh cohn (rhymes with John)

Here, Duane is one syllable dwayne

One of my pet peeves, as an Italian is how that is pronounced. It's not Eye Talian, it's It (rhymes with sit) alian. I've never heard someone say "Eye taly" for the country!

This thread reminds me of the SNL skit with Christopher Walken singing "You say potato..." and saying the words the same everytime!

LOL, hooray Sheetcake's back!

And reading this thread, all I can hear in my head is that exchange between Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan in "When Harry Met Sally" when they're in the museum talking in the funny voices and he's trying to get her to say "Pee-can pieee".

I put people that insist on "puh-cahn" in the same category with the people that insist on "fihnance" (real fast, almost monosyllabic) instead of "fie-nance". As though the mere pronunciation makes their context superior. Whatever. Move on.

You can say p-can all you want, Nittanyalum! I say things my own way and refuse to change..ie. "q-pon" instead of coupon, "prolly" instead of probably (don't ask, I don't know why I do this!), "deddy" instead of daddy. I only say p-can when I'm being goofy. If you say it with praline, though, puh-khan is the only thing that sounds right! (By the way, praline is pronounced prah-lean not pray-lean!)

I actually vary the way I say it, depending on where and when I say it and in what context ("There's a slice of p-can pie." "That pie is full of pe-cahns." I don't know why I do it either). So I don't have a problem with saying it any way you want to, I have an issue with people that insist that the ONLY way to say it is... xyz.

I agree with you on that! Although, I have been known to have such strong opinions on a wide variety of topics. My husband always says "They should have called your 1-800 number to get your opinion before doing [insert whatever I'm b*tching about!]"

theres a difference between how someone chooses to pronounce their own name and how a chain store pronounces its name among the public. go ahead and say "doo-juan" and everyone who knows otherwise will, at best sigh and think "bless their heart, they must not be from here" or at worst, sigh and think "what an effing idiot/snooty @ss."

fortunately, in the instance i recall most recently, the kid just didnt know, wasnt from the area.

i thought that it was a European thing...

Could be. But it's also annoyingly prevalent among MBAs and among those in "fihnance".

I say puh-cahn, and fienance, so how those tuhmaters.

I've never heard of that. So jealous!

I scored 63% Dixie. Born and raised in Maryland, 4 years of school in WV, 1 year and going living in North Carolina.

Come to North Carolina.

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(Technically, though, it's not a liquor store, since liquor can only be bought at ABC stores. Brew-Thrus have beer and wine.)

Also, Illinois has them.

89% Dixie. I'm a little surprised it's not higher.

Regarding the drive-thrus...
Kentucky has drive-thru liquor stores. And rumor has it that some'll even supply you with a cup and ice if you ask for it. (I've gone through plenty drive-thru liquor stores, but I've never requested a cup and ice!)

its a chain drug store in the city, kinda like the Starbucks of drug stores here, so its something the everyday New Yorker would know how to pronounce, as with pronouncing Houston and Stuyvesant.

(and you know i meant the general "you" right?)

59% Barely Dixie.

From a girl whose Dad was born and raised in Southern Md, whose mom was born and raised in rural Alabama, who grew up on military bases in KS/MO, Germany, New York and Virginia and spent three years in NC.

Guess that's bout right.

38% Yankee

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SHEETCAKE really loves that Google interns cake.

Wow, I scored 60% - Dixie.

Was it "Potato Bug"? Or "Drinking Fountain"? or "Pop" that did it? No, I don't think so. I only answered "southern" to "Y'all" and "Bag," which doesn't seem over the top dixie to me. Actually, my responses mostly indicated that I belong somewhere in Wisconsin or Illinois I think.

only 48% Yankee. Pretty low score, considering I grew up on the shores of Lake Ontario in NYS.