Yeh, I agree pretentious is very local and situational. Some of us Canadians get labelled pretentious, I'm sure, for saying "aboot".

Old rural pronunciations are strange and fun. My father, who grew up in a farm, pronounced "roof" to rhyme with "woof" (that is, "wuf"), for example. Still quite common in the country, I'm betting.

Wendy
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Booked: Uniworld Egypt, 2015
Tauck Amsterdam to Budapest, 2016
Paul Gauguin, Societies & Tuamotus 2016