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Originally Posted by gsupstate
I'm not orginally from Greenville, but I did grow up in the South. I've always said prahleen. A really southern person usually says "prawwwhleen". When people say prayleen, I tend to think they are from the North.
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Interesting; I never knew there were alternate pronunciations. I always thought it was pray-leen, I'd never heard it pronounced it another way. On a side note I grew up pronouncing pecan pee-can, but about a year ago I switched to puh-cahn.