Last Week Tonight - And Now This: People on TV Interrogate the Question: Do You Say Pecan or Pecan?

From the November 20, 2022 episode of "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver".

[@GiraffeLover89]

Rachel Ray clearly not giving two shits about this argument is *chef's kiss*

[@TheKYLEdavid]

Yeah, who cares how someone pronounced it just as long as it tastes good So many regional dialects out there, yet random words like this one become famous for no reason

[@radboy707]

You Pee in a can. You eat a Pecan (Pec-on).

[@jlev1028]

PEE-KAHN just sounds too weird for me.

[@zorakj]

I say it whichever way those around me are not.

[@kelzbelz313]

PEE-can the English word was borrowed from French pecane. The French word is a gallicization of the Algonquin word for the nut and it was pronounced most closely to PEE-can. All that being said, language should be descriptive not prescriptive. If a pronunciation is commonly used and the meaning is apparent then the pronunciation is correct.

[@JKSSubstandard]

Yes, but do you mean the nut or the urinary device?

[@brocode113]

@@JKSSubstandard come one, your language has the word 'peacock' for a bird and you think pronouncing a nut pee-can is weird?

[@BobBuildsBrix]

Of course it's pronounced pecan, who the hell says pecan?

[@andrewyesin4765]

Yoy can't buy Brioni suit from the Amazon! What's wrong with you?!

[@SlyHikari03]

Finally, real news.

[@maxscameraguy]

Someone really dug deep on that one.