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I’m on a roller coaster ride. I get labs every six weeks when I get the immuno infusion. Last three were 78, 225, 98. 🫤
 
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Busted flat in Baton Rouge, waitin' for a train
When I's feelin' near as faded as my jeans
Bobby thumbed a diesel down, just before it rained
And rode us all the way into New Orleans
 
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THE PAINFUL TRUTH ABOUT "PECAN" ..... Here it is, do with it what you will. The word pecan has always been pronounced correctly just as it sounds, pe-can. It was an Indian word referring to all nuts that were hard to crack, such as its cousins hickory and walnut. We adopted it specifically for the pecan nut. It was pronounced pe-can because it was spelled as such, and was naturally pronounced like other words spelled with "can." Folks didn't refer to Toucans as "Too-cons", or Mexicans as "Mexicons." Only later did folks with social pretensions, who despaired of being snickered at for saying a word that sounded to the uncouth as referring to a container to urinate into, began to mispronounce it as "pe-con", to avoid the reference and sound sophisticated. There, the word is and always has been pe-can
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The History of Pecans In America - Bag-A-Nut.

"The origin of the pecan can be traced back as early as the 1500s and was named by Native Americans. The word pecan is derived from the Algonquin tribe’s word “pacane” which translates to “nuts requiring a stone to crack”. Native Americans were the first to cultivate and utilize wild pecans and their trees."

Errbody wrong, it's actually Pee Caine.
 
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Sgt_Nick_Fury said:
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“It was pronounced pe-can because it was spelled as such.”

LMAO. And who decided the spelling? Not the Indians. A settler from England? From Ireland? France? Germany? All of whom would hear a spoken word (from a non-Indo-European language at that) and try to capture it in our Latin alphabet, according to how THEIR ears heard it and their very possibly limited spelling skills.

I would be astonished if there were a single word that we had learned from any of the American Indian language groups that was pronounced even slightly the way that it is “supposed” to be pronounced.
 
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I thought the same thing. Lol.

Couple Indians sitting around the campfire cracking pecans, drinking firewater and toking on the ole peace pipe with an English dude. Indian mumbles some Indian word and the English dude says wtf is a pee can?
 
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