honestly it is fucking surreal every time i remember how few english speakers actually use /a/ for the sound in ‘rat’. like... here i am, just trying to make fun of americans for saying hand like hjænd, and then i realise i also have to make fun of canadians, australians, nzers, a handful of particularly pretentious english ppl, some other completely unpretentious but very london english ppl who now hate me, and p much everyone else while i do it because i DARED to assume that english at large might POSSIBLY have preserved something vaguely resembling the basic international pronunciation of the first fucking letter of the roman alphabet, but APPARENTLY