What is correct pizza or Pitza?

Do you pronounce pizza as "PEET-zah" or "PEE-zah"? from NoStupidQuestions

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Pizza is a alternative form of pitza.
Pitza is likely misspelled.
As a noun pizza is

pitza | pizza | Alternative forms |

Pizza is a alternative form of pitza.

Pitza is likely misspelled.

Pitza has no English definition.

As a noun pizza is

a baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread dough crust typically topped before baking with tomato sauce, cheese, and other ingredients such as meat, vegetables or fruit.

Pitza has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

(wikipedia pizza) * pitza (South African English)

(uncountable) A baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread dough crust typically topped before baking with tomato sauce, cheese and other ingredients such as meat, vegetables or fruit

a slice of pizza a pizza pie Want to go out for pizza tonight?

(countable) A single instance of this dish

He ate a whole pizza ! Should we cook a frozen pizza for dinner?

* In phrases like (term) and (term), (term) refers to the toppings.

* pizza bone * pizza cutter * pizza face * pizza man * pizza parlor * pizza puff * pizza wheel * pizzeria * sheet pizza

I live in an area where the only dialects I tend to hear are South Midland, American Southern, and AAVE. I commonly hear "pete-sa" and "pee-sa". I can't recall ever hearing it with a "d" sound clearly pronounced in it.

However, food words are about the most susceptible words in the language to regionalisms, so it wouldn't surprise me to hear alternates, and I doubt I'd make a huge deal of it if I did.

There is one exception. Whenever I hear a New Englander say the word "corn", I can't stop myself from doing a bad Captain Kirk impression from Star Trek 2.

Khaaaaan!!!