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[Arachno-capitalist]

You lose 10pts when you say Munts where Months is the appropriate word. Also "Nother" as in "That is whole nother issue"

[Carlos del Vaca]

I have found myself saying "a whole 'nother," which I find amusing because I would never write that (except in a meta instance such as this).

My pronunciation pet peeve: the word "mittens" has T's in it. TWO of them. They are NOT SILENT, people.

[jaydub]

Kittens
Shuttle
Little

The vernacular is evolving towards these being pronounced with a glottal (or is that a glo'al) stop instead of a hard t.

[jay-ell]

Mi'ens is a Thing in the midwest. I don't say it that way, but I grew up around a lot of people who did.

I confess to saying "nother." But I intend it ironically.

[wombat]

I don't see anything wrong with "nother."

And glottal stop for t in American English before a syllabic consonant like n (as in kitten) has been normal since basically forever. If that's how we said it when I took my first phonetics class in high school there is no way it can be a recent evolution, unfortunately for me.

[greenkoolayd]

koppenhaver is a common name around here, but everyone says "CUPPenhaver", including me.

[AugustWest]

I can't hear the difference between "pin" and "pen".

[theinevitable]

can't hear it, or don't say it?

I can't do dawn/don.

[Doc]

Kittens
Shuttle
Little

The vernacular is evolving towards these being pronounced with a glottal (or is that a glo'al) stop instead of a hard t.

Is the american midwest being invaded by cockney street urchins?

[wombat]

I can't hear the difference between "pin" and "pen".

Isn't this because round your parts, they don't say a difference between pin and pen?

I think the dialect I speak has the most different vowels possible in American English. I feel sad for people whose vowel systems are impoverished.

[greenkoolayd]

I feel sad for people whose vowel systems are impoverished.

scandinavians?

[wombat]

Other Americans, I mean.

Also sometimes they are annoying. I once had to stop watching a TV show about dinosaurs because the narrator didn't have the Don/Dawn distinction and every time she said the last vowel in "dinosaur" it drove me crazy.

I don't know whether there's any change going on to have more dialects gain or lose this distinction, but if it is getting lost, this is how I would go off the deep end: putting my foot down that this must stop.

[AugustWest]

Isn't this because round your parts, they don't say a difference between pin and pen?

Right.  Because there isn't one.

[Nabubrush]

How would you say "couch"?

The street here is pronounced "cooch".

How would you say "glisan"?

The street here is pronounced "gleason".

I have twenty of these, at least. Street names here are weird.

[jay-ell]

I tease Pedro because he pronounces the "th" in "clothes." He teases me because I say "coupon" as "KYU pon" instead of "COO pon." We're just a mixed-up modern family, I guess.

We have a town nearby called Wendell. It's pronounced with the accent on both syllables: WEN DELL. (Or, sometimes, WAYN DAYLE.) In fact, somebody on my FB feed just posted a link to this piece on our local news web site that details all the weird local pronunciations that are not at all intuitive:

http://www.wral.com/lifestyles/travel/blogpost/10331495/