It's interesting how we changed the language isn't it.....American laziness or whatever. By the time "Derby" got to Ohio and throeugh a few generations, it had become two words, one as Derby (dirby) and the other as Darby (dahrby). Even better is Worcester which wound up in Ohio as Wooster (Wuhster), but given a few more generations came to be pronounced "WOOOS-tir."

In this neck of the woods we also tend to add in a consonant, simply slurring it. Phonetically, Wooster should have come out as WOO-stir, but we put the s on the end of the Woo and the t at the beginning of stir. I mention that because of aluminum.

It seems that all words opening with a vowel here are immediately changed so that the vowel is pronounced "uh".....Like in Uh HI uh, more commonly written as a joke as Ahia but actually pronounced "Uh-HI-Uh. Add in the doubled up consonant break in the middle and ALUMINUM comes out "Uh-LOOM-minum." It a faint doubling, but if you listen, it's there, just a quick tongue flick for the second m.

Spaw