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Let's have a little fun today, flist. How exactly do you say "where?"

I've been noticing a lot (specifically in narrators when watching The Universe), that people sometimes drop the 'Wah' sound in words like "where" or "when", replacing it with some exhaled breath sound. As if you're saying "whose".

This got me thinking. Is it a regional thing? Like the difference between US East Coast aunt (pronounced awnt) or the way we do it on the west coast (pronounced ant).

So, here the trick for today. I'm going to give you a list of words and your job is to say where you're from (or the region) and how you pronounce them. Should be fun. :D

Aunt
Where
Ask
Affidavit
Mayonnaise
Herbs
Irregardless
Aluminium
Sterile

I'll go first: (Northern California)

Ant
Wahair
Ahsk
Aff-if-dave-id
Man-aezz
Herb-zz (Oh yeah, I say it with an H because I'm so cool.)
Irr-ree-gaurd-less
Al-lum-in-um
Stair-rile