Pecans as suggested by Dave. Thanks Dave.
My Dad really likes Pecan Pie. I don’t know how to say Pecan Pie. Rather I don’t know how to say the word pecan. Do you say it with the super southern drawl as PEEE-CAAN (where exactly is the accent on that word, merriam webster?) Or should you say it with the Yankee inflection….pe-CON. What the hell is this blog entry about? Who cares.
Here’s a secret – whenever I am unsure on how to say a word, I purposefully butcher it so as to always look like I’m making fun of the idiots who don’t know how to say that word. Here’s a real-life example… the name Eames as in Ray and Charles Eames. I often mispronounce it as Aims, because my mom would say Aims instead of Eeems which is how it is pronounced. Ok, that wasn’t a real-life example of me completely butchering a word at all. That was an example of how I mispronounce words.
Uhhh….so here’s a real-real-life example. Whenever I was working at that super-pretentious music reviewers website I would purposefully mispronounce words like the French singer who was super creepy and was accused of sleeping with his daughter. His name is Serge Gainsbourg. Duhhh, you stupid!
But I would pronounce it Say-r-gay because I figured that wasn’t right but it sounded like I was making fun of how other people might say it if they were a total dummy.
At least I know how to tell the difference between the words route and root. My seventh grade math teacher did not know the difference between these two words. And I remember once he went on a tyrannical rampage on how the English language doesn’t make any sense. By the way, he was completely one-hundred percent grade A prime cut American. But not beef because this guy was totally skeezy and would hit on the one popular seventh grade girl. Yeah I said the one. I grew up in a small school. Why is everyone so judgmental on this website? (ok get ready for the worst segue you’ve ever read). This place is like the real life civil war. Its like north vs. south. Its like PEE-CAANNN vs. pe-CON.
