When I was a child "Out West" I was always trying to trap my auntie (who was born in Charleston, SC.) into speaking the way we did. "Say Mother!" I would command. "Moth-ah," she would respond. " No, say MOTHER!!" I would insist. "Moth-ah," she would reply, eyes twinkling. "NO, NO," said I, ""That's not right!" Laughing, she would say, "You are just trying to get me to say MOTH-ER-RRRRRR!" We had many delightful go-arounds of the "I say tomato, you say To-MAH-to, I say potato, you say Po-TAH-to" variety. Elizabeth Goodfellow Engle