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My impression was always that this was an east/west-coast thing. I could be wrong!

Sir Francis Bay Con would like a word with you.

Like finance/finance

To me, those are the verb and the noun respectively.

"He will finance the project." "The project got its finance."

With silicon, I think I stress the first syllable, if any.

Huh interesting, I definitely make that distinction for "refuse" but not "finance". That's from an Australian English speaker though.

It's the same for me (a US English speaker raised on the east coast who lived on the west coast for a decade).

I also wouldn't pronounce "financing" as "financeing", and I don't recall ever hearing a fellow American pronounce it that way, even if they might say "finance".

Whether it's c'n or cahn, the first syllable gets the stress; that is not the issue.

I would say that the project got its financing, or maybe that it became financed. Finance as a noun is the whole field of handling money (Bob works in finance). I pronounce it all starting with "fine".

For those who are curious, "fine-ance" / "fin-ance"