Originally Posted by
405grain
It's all about the local dialect. People are going to pronounce things different based on their local culture. In example folk from the Deep South are going to pronounce the same words differently than folks from New England or the South West. Usually these cultural differences in speech can tell you almost immediately what region people are from. In an example: I was in San Francisco last Saturday. I needed to cross a street, and waited for the light to change. There were a pair of ladies behind me having a conversation. When the light changed I started to count. In the time that it took me to walk across the street the lady behind me used the word "like" 26 times. I instantly deduced that she was from California.