User:GabrielSjoberg/Sandbox
Pronunciation edit
Pronunciation
- IPA: [ˌpi(ː)ˈkɒːn]
(most common US pronunciation; common on the West Coast, in the Eastern US except the coastal Southeast; more common near the Great Lakes and in New England than in the other areas it is found)[1]- Rhymes: -ɒn
- IPA(key): [pɪ.kɒːn], [ˌpɪˈkɒːn] (second-most common US pronunciation; common on the West Coast, in the Eastern US except the coastal Southeast; more common in New England than in the other areas it is found[1][2], also used in the UK[3])
- IPA(key): [ˈpiːˌkæn] (third-most common US pronunciation; the most common pronunciation in New England and the coastal Southeast[1][4], also used in the UK[5])
- Rhymes: -æn
- IPA(key): [ˈpiːˌkɒ(ː)n] (fourth-most common US pronunciation; found in New England and the Upper Midwest)[1]
- IPA(key): [ˌpi(ː)ˈkæn] (fifth-most common US pronunciation; found mainly in New England)[1]
- IPA(key): [pɪk.æn] (a pronunciation found almost exclusively in coastal New England, and not the most common pronunciation there)[1]
- IPA(key): [ˌpəˈkɔːn], [ˌpɪˈkɔːn] (a pronunciation found in Louisiana)[6]
- IPA(key): [ˌpəˈkɒ(ː)n] (an unstressed US pronunciation)[4]
- IPA(key): [ˌpɪˈkæn] (a pronunciation used in the UK[7], also used by some US speakers[4])
- IPA(key): [ˈpiːˌkən] (a pronunciation used in the UK[3])
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 The Dialect Survey
- ^ “GabrielSjoberg/Sandbox”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "pecan" in the Concise Oxford English Dictionary, 2008, WordReference.com
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 “GabrielSjoberg/Sandbox”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- ^ Christopher Davies, Divided by a Common Language: A Guide to British and American English (2005-7)
- ^ Claude E. Kantner, Variant Louisiana pronunciations of the word "pecan" (1944)
- ^ Burkhard Dretzke, Modern British and American English pronunciation (2008)