you won't catch this transplanted southern girl laughing. i married a 'northern boy'. I was born in okla. (and i have since learned that is considered south by some) and had lived pretty much my lst 18 yrs south of the mason/dixon line. the lst book we bought when we were married after the bible was a dictionary. so we could settle our word pronouncations legit. my dad was military, and i had moved several times as a kid and thought for sure i knew what was right. HA, every part of the country has their own way of pronoucing words. for sure.