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Posted on 6/21/16 at 10:39 am to Weagle25
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Fixin is about as common as you can get in the south.
It's weird, I thought it was universal for the south, but met some people from South Mississippi that had never heard it used. They also didn't know that when it rains and the sun is out, the Devil is beating his wife.
Posted on 6/21/16 at 11:01 am to Jebeco
I go with pah kahn, like it's supposed to be. My uncle actually made a similar joke when he met Clarence Thomas, and he said pee can.
Posted on 6/21/16 at 11:47 am to skrayper
Pekahn: Genghis Kahn famously used peKahn wood in his chariots. His armies used peKahns in slingshots in battle.
Posted on 6/21/16 at 12:48 pm to AUCatfish
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met some people from South Mississippi that had never heard it used.
They had to be lying.
Posted on 6/21/16 at 12:50 pm to skrayper
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pee-can
Posted on 6/21/16 at 12:54 pm to AUCatfish
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What about "fixin"?
fixin is timeless in southern culture. I don't think that makes someone a try-hard, it just "is".
Posted on 6/21/16 at 1:49 pm to WG_Dawg
i always call valleys and ravines "hollers", just to confuse people. I also like saying "et" instead of "eaten" or "ate".
Posted on 6/21/16 at 3:07 pm to Call me the Doc
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Pee-Kahn South GA
Georgia is #1 producer, mostly grown here in south Georgia, and we (most of us) say Pee-Can. Period. To the Texan who said that's "yankee," dialect, that's just nonsense. If I say your pronunciation ( peh kahn) in south GA, I'd be automatically asked where I'm from.
This post was edited on 6/21/16 at 5:43 pm
Posted on 6/21/16 at 8:29 pm to skrayper
We eat pah-khans and we put pee-cans under the bed.
Posted on 6/21/16 at 8:40 pm to AU86
The real question here is how many of you fake Luke Bryan mother frickers say "warsh"
Posted on 6/22/16 at 9:15 am to LewDawg
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The real question here is how many of you fake Luke Bryan mother frickers say "warsh"
My deceased FIL used to say "warsh".
Posted on 6/22/16 at 8:09 pm to Uncle Gunnysack
Hollers are very common here. Most all Eastern Kentucky is referred to as hollers. Fixin is common here as well. And it's definitely pah - khan. Kentucky bluegrass born and raised.
Posted on 6/22/16 at 10:00 pm to WG_Dawg
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I feel like anyone who says PEE-Can is just trying too hard to be southern. Same goes for people under 40 who say crick, holler, supper, etc. MF'er you aren't 90 and you didn't grow up on a dirt farm, quit saying crick.
I used to say supper, reckon, and yonder all the time when I was a kid cause I spent so much time with Paw Paw. Hell, it was a revelation to me when I found out vienna sausage(pronounced Vy eena) and rice was not a normal breakfast food.
Posted on 6/23/16 at 5:00 am to AUCatfish
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It's weird, I thought it was universal for the south, but met some people from South Mississippi that had never heard it used. They also didn't know that when it rains and the sun is out, the Devil is beating his wife.
Lived in Connecticut when my ex was stationed there and they had NO idea what I was talking about with either of those. Someone actually asked me what I was about to repair (fix) when I said I was fixin' to do so-and-so. They didn't know what a buggy was (they call it a shopping cart), thought I was kidding when I used the term "youngin'", had no idea what "knee-high to a grasshopper" meant...the list goes on and on.
ETA: And I'm in the green section of that map and do, in fact, pronounce it PEE-can just as the map indicates for most of SC.
This post was edited on 6/23/16 at 5:03 am
Posted on 6/23/16 at 7:47 am to Carolina_Girl
Most everyone around here says pee-can
Posted on 6/23/16 at 11:18 am to skrayper
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So, curious - how do you say it, and be honest - where are you from?
Pee Can
My family has been in extreme southeast Georgia & northeast Florida, since the 1730s. No Yankees in my line.
Posted on 6/23/16 at 5:35 pm to skrayper
A pee can is what ur grandmother had under her bed as a child... a puh kahn is a nut
Posted on 6/23/16 at 10:21 pm to skrayper
Pah-
Posted on 6/23/16 at 10:40 pm to skrayper
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