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Old Fri Apr 29, 2011, 01:03pm
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Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA View Post
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I can tell you that a pee-can is something you keep in the duck blind. A pi-ˈkän is the hickory from which the nut comes.
Hard as it may be for you to accept, correct pronunciation is not exclusively defined by the Central Atlantic Seaboard.

pe·can
noun \pi-ˈkän, -ˈkan; ˈpē-ˌkan\
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