• @[email protected]
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    111 year ago

    Also are we going to talk about the fact that I’ve never heard anyone outside of the south pronounce pecan as “pee-can?”

    • Polar
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      81 year ago

      What? Canada pronounces it “pee-can” instead of “peh-cawn”.

    • @groats_survivor
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      21 year ago

      As a northerner, I’ve never heard pee-can either. I think it’s a straw man for southerners

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      we really need to get some linguists on Lemmy because i miss communities like r/fauxnetics

      this is why they should just teach IPA in schools lol whats the point of these phonetic spellings when the point is that many dialects of english pronounce the same word differently

      OP was probably talking about /'pi.cæn/ as in “can of beans” compared to /pɪ’can/ as in “con man”. they altered “pee” even though that part sounds nearly the same! probably because a Pee Can is a funny image.