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Originally Posted by KC911 View Post
I'm from the south, so I pronounce it wrong

But it rhymes with bacon....
Yeah, that's how I pronounce it. I remember years ago there was a "rule" that said that if you had a vowel-consonant-vowel, then the second vowel made the first vowel long, hence, MAY-kən

Then of course, there's also the nut...

pee KÄN
PEE can
pə KÄN
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