Quote Originally Posted by Celtic Mom View Post
(snip) I now live in Utah, and here there is a tendency to drop the letter t drives me crazy. They typically say "mountain" as "mou-an," my maiden name of Barton became "Bar-un."
This shows up in California as well. One local TV news reporter (and I use the word loosely) is especially guilty, or "gill-ee" of it, and it drives us crazy as well!

There is a town in Wyoming named Dubois, pronounced due-boice. My mother told the story of a new president coming to Wyoming State University. People thought he was somewhat stuck-up, or "full of himself," when he insisted that his last name of Dubois was not pronounced that way!