Yikes! I can definitely hear the difference, but I'm not sure I could enunciate it--see aforementioned horrible accent; my a's are a little too Jersey to pull that one off. Your mom's pronunciation is how I say my sister's name; my mom says it with an even more nasal a than I do.
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Date: 2012-04-26 06:50 pm (UTC)Have fun in Chicago!