Last Saturday we loaded up the kids and headed down the road to a farm that I love to visit. They sell farm fresh chickens and turkeys. You can pick sweet corn and blueberries in the summer. But, right now you can go pick strawberries. I was so excited to come home with heaping mounds of red luscious berries. I was going to make pies and jams and stuff them in my mouth and throw them on salads. Ooooh, I love strawberries!
Dad GUM IT!!! You can imagine how irked I was to see that Picked Out Today sign. Mostly because I was too late to pick strawberries and blueberries last year and I thought this year I was on top of my picking game. DAD GUM!!
Guess where we went instead? Can you smell them? Do you love them? Do you want to marry them? Do you want to stick one behind your ear and then scream because a million ants are now crawling all over your face and into your ear drum?
And one more question.
Do you say Pee Oh Knee or Pee Ah Knee?
This post has nothing to do with pee or knees. Thank you, I’ll be here all week. I LOVE YOU, GOODNIGHT!!!!!
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Pee Oh Knee. I’m from Massachusetts.
You, dear friend…are farkin’ hysterical. Ants in your ears! LOL
Pee Ah Nee and I’m from Indiana. I’m really enjoying your blog!
Pee AH Nee and I’m from Florida but that don’t mean much. hahaha
Love the pictures, though sorry you missed the strawberries!!
Here in South Carolina we call them pee-on-ees. Yeah.
Strawberries are ready here late April to mid May. Hope you get to pick blueberries.
Pee-oh-knee…never heard the “ah” or the shortened “Pee knee” as you titled your post until I moved to Indiana. Glad to know other people say it the same “right” way!
pee-ah-knee. i’ve been in Kansas since 1971 and never thought I’d still be here; crazy. My mom loves pee-a-knees, always washed the ants off and could never figure out why the buds never bloomed. I love my mom.
PeOneys are my FAVORITE flower.
I have a collection of varieties and some are new and I am SO anxious to see them!
You make me laugh. I call those dad gum ants bad words! I call those purty flowas, pee oh knees.
pee-o-knees – West Coast of Canada pronunciation
I say pee oh nee, pee ah nee, or pee nee….just depends on my mood….
Born and raised in Kansas and have always said Pee Oh Knees. Had a bush right under the kitchen window and cut it down because of all the ants…. I’m with Karen, I also call them ants bad words.
Pee a nees, here in KS and they smell wonderful but I really hate the ants. I guess you get the good with the bad. How far do you want to drive for strawberries? They have some at a farm called Berry Good Farm and I think they will have some for awhile. They are in Franklin County just west and north of Ottawa, KS. We went today and just as we got there it started to rain. Well we didn’t let that stop us from picking 5lbs worth while holding our umbrellas. We still left there sopping wet. I can tell you we didn’t munch as much as we normally would, we were on a mission(to get out of the rain). Tonight I made 6 pint size jars of strawberry jam!! Gave them a hot water bath and all. It was my first time and it is delicious.
Inga
Pee a knee….not to be confused with pee your pants! Loved the post!
Pee Ah Knee, and from Michigan originally, now virginia.
I’m from Idaho and we say Pee-oh-knee. Hate the ants, love the flowers!
Actually, I don’t think I say it with the ah or the oh … I say it more like pee-uh-nee … try it … totally lazy California spin on it.
pee oh knee and they’re my favorite, followed by hydrangeas, which are called hi drain jahs
Pee UH nee…the lazy Canadian, er, Californian, way to say it.
Well, if I was talkin’ BOW-tan-ick-ull Latin I’d be sayin’ Pay-OWN-eeee-uh.
From Kentucky and call them pee ah knees…one of the most
beautiful flowers and also the messiest when they fall apart…my backyard is currently covered in white peonies..also boys love to throw them at everyone..making the mess even bigger….
One day I said pee-oh-nee and my husband (lovingly, I’m sure) laughed his head off like I was the dumbest creature walking. Now I say pee-AH-nee like I know or something. But we’re from the Deep South so you’d probably hear it come out of my mouth more like peee-AAHHH-neee.
PEE-uh-nee. Never heard it pronounced pee-OH-knee or pee-AH-nee. I’m also from the deep south. I can’t figure out any regional pattern to the pronunciation according to the other posts – I guess I fit in with the Californians!
Now how do you pronounce PECAN? (pah-KAHN, here – or sometimes pee-can as in pee-can pie)
Pe-ah-nee – Georgia girl here
pee ah knee. Gorgeous either way. Don’t grow them maybe next year.
Pee-ah-nees. Central Ohio. I discovered your blog about 2 weeks ago. Love it!
In North Carolina I heard them pronounced “pee-OH-nee”, accent on the second syllable.
Pee-a-knee. Or as I’ve heard called, Peke-i-nese.
I thought for sure you were going to blog about pee on your kids knees…….from those pigs.
I’m so jealous of the pee AH knees. I’ve only seen a few this season in OHIO.
Pee-Ah-Knees – Texas.
Pee-on-nees…
One of the most glorious flowers ever grown. The smell, wonderful and the flower is breathtaking!! God does great work!!!
Enjoy your day!
I would agree with the commenter who said
pee-UH- knee. I am from Georgia.
Close would be pee-AH-knee.
I also say pa-chan. (pecan) if you are asking?
Never. Pee-CAN.
Pee-uh-knee from Illinois. Was born in KC, but came to IL when I was a baby. All my southern relatives say pee-oh-knee though.(OK & TX) Love your blog..and your sister’s!
Pee OH knees. Kansas.
My Aunt Crosie called ‘em Pee OH knees and that’s how they shall forever be known. I’m telling you: don’t cross her.
I say pee-knee.
Sorry they were picked out.
-FringeGirl
Pee-ah-knees. I am originally from Ohio – I don’t know if that makes a difference.
I am so glad that your post went there instead of in another direction. The title scared me just a tad when I first read it!
No “Ah.” No “Oh.” Just plain ole’ pee-nees. I save the Ah’s and Oh’s for after I smell them. My very favorite flowers… and I love the way they smell. I was raised in West Virginia. Terrific post.
One flower is a pee-oh-nee, two or more are pee-oh-nees. My MIL, however, says pee-o-nese for plural or singular, flower or bush. It’s like Jap-o-nese or Chi-nese. It’s a bush of friggin’ Asian origin or something. (Not that that would be bad, just that I don’t think from the spelling it belongs in this category.) When she isn’t saying it like that, she says it so that it sounds very similar to panties. It drives me insane. But really, she’s a pretty good MIL, so I just go into another room and silently bang my head against a wall until my brain is numb to such things.
I say pee-oh-knee but my mother says pee-ah-knee. Toe-may-toe, tom-mah-toe or as we say here in Alabama tuh-may-ta.
I should also point out that the oh/uh/ah syllable is so indistinct that it could be any of these. Wait, let me say it twenty times. Nope, it’s more of an “uh”.
Puh-cahn, dahling, but occasionally pee-can. My dad’s family was from New Jersey and my mom was raised in Texas by parents from Mississippi and Louisiana. My pronunciation is all over the place, but I will never, ever say ham-booger or warsh.
I’m with Jenni in KS. The middle syllable is fairly indistinguishable. “PEE-uh/ah-knee”. My great grandma, rest her soul, was born, lived and died in the north woods of Wisconsin. She called them “PIE-knees” and had the most beautiful ones all over her backyard.
Pee ah knee…My Mom-in-law pronounces it Pee-OH-knee – emphasis on the “OH”…
Pee Ah Knee. I’m from IN. But my TN grandmother always said Pee Oh Knee, with emphasis on “Oh.”
I love pee knees. (My mom says pee OH knees) Peonies make me happy, remind me of home, and they smell great and say “Summer is really here…” they are droopy and wonderful and I’m jealous of that you have a pick your own place for peonies! That is unfair. I have to grow my own. And I am aware the first sentence was a run-on.
I’m with the write-in votes for “Uh”. I want to crawl inside a room of those beautiful blossoms, though. I don’t dare show my four year old, or she’ll insist I construct just such a room, just for her. They are bliss. Thanks for sharing. And, btw, totally unfair that you all have strawberries now, when I have 3 inch high tomato plants and some spinach. New England is a cruel master.
Pee Oh Knees….
I’m sorry your strawberry picking went bad. Hopefully you can pick another day.
Charity
It’s a Southn’ thang…Pee OH Knee and Saweet Tea and Pee Can pic
Pee Can Pi
This post was the pee’s knees! And thank goodness you’ve stopped posting about chickens.. as a vegetarian, I’ve had to stop reading…
Too funny! Way out here in the other Wa”r”shington, we call them pee-oh-nees on one side of the state and pee-a-nees on the other. Peonies are beautiful, but are they as picky about being moved and transplanted in Kansas as they are here?
Just remembered somthin…you do know that the ants are attracted to the peonies by the honeydew left behind by the aphids. You just gotta control the aphids with an Insecticide Soap, then your ant problem may go away. Just a suggestion. We had a ton of peonies at my childhood house in Eastern Washington. Couldn’t grow rhodies…too cold. Anyway, I always remember my mom shaking them to get rid of the ants before she brought them inside.