@Felthry *records zirself on zir phone experimentally*
The vowel we use seems to be plausibly spelled with an "a" there, so yeah - I guess our dialect is one that pronounces it that way?
@Felthry *nods*
yeah, that's valid
part of why we try to spell things properly is because we know /we/ were really sensitized to unexpected variations, and "mastadon" doesn't strike us as an entertaining variant
@packbat I wouldn't consider it phonetic either, but perhaps in some dialects