did K tell you that she thought squash was nasty?

Hawaii has the surplus of vowels. Wales, a sore lack thereof.

If only the two could get together and have a continental kid, it would have both the perfect number of consonants and vowels and the perfect temperate weather.

Hey, I said it was regional, not right!

Anyway, I think the thing on my pants was a water spot, and I did make it worse. Greeeaaaat.

I say An-tee, as do all of my Midwestern-raised relatives.

Midwesterner checking in to back up Robin on the An-tee.

I have pimped The Book at Whedonesque, and lured my mother-in-law into reading it. It's been a full weekend.

I say An-tee, as do all of my Midwestern-raised relatives.

Ohntee from this product of midwesterners. Of course, there's some recent immigrant mixed in there. But given the non-immigrant Minnesotans make up the most aunties....Maybe sw Mn and SD are a bit different.

I mostly find Nadal annoying but he plays so well and today's match was a total nail biter.

And check out the BBC's amusing commentary on the Murray/Jankovic vs. Bjorkman/Molik mixed doubles finals.

New Yorker, child of one New Yorker and one New Englander here. I generally say an-tee, but sometimes switch over to ahn-tee without really noticing. Same thing with bath and bahth.

I just say Aunt ____. I've never used "Auntie."

Non-mid-westerner, also pronounce it an-tee.

Our B&N is way the hell over yonder, so I can't go check it out until Wednesday. Am saddened by this. But, it's only a couple of days; I can tough it out. I was going to try to go today, but that didn't pan out at all.

Yikes. I have to throw a load of laundry in tonight, or things will not be pretty tomorrow.

ETA: Well, OK, I also say Aunt ____ like Cash. If I did say Auntie, it'd be an-tee.

ETAA: I sort of adore the "How do you pronounce X?" roll calls. It's very... comforting isn't the right word, but it's something like that.

I just say Aunt ____. I've never used "Auntie."

I say "Auntie" for the aunts on my mom's side of the family (the New Englanders), and "Aunt" for my dad's side (the New Yorkers.)

Or does Boston actually lack restaurants that cater to vegans?

Well, Jen would be our resource on that question.

I don't know if there's a vegan-only restaurant, but there are plenty of good options where you can eat vegan. We ate at Dali's (the best tapas place I've ever been to) in Boston and Jen had many non-animal-exploiting dishes.

Also Indian and Thai are easy to get without vegan issues.