Faldage says, I grew up in Chicago. My mother was a Wisconsin farm girl ... I never heard it ["aunt"] spoken with that horrid aw or ah sound ..." and, "Eyethur is about all I hear anymore. In my yoot it always sounded pretentious."

Faldage, I grew up in the Chicago suburbs and still live there and my wife is a Wisconsin farm girl. The pronunciations we hear here are ant and eether.

To local ears, awnt, ahnt and eyether still sound pretentious or foreign.