Warter, warter everywhere

I had four friends say "water", and here are the results:

Two had /wart@r/ (or however that should be transcribed). One is from New York, by way of North Carolina. I'd say that he has a New York accent of some kind. The other, his girlfriend, is from Texas and has a fairly strong Texas accent.

The other two, like me, had /wat@r/. One is from Texas and has a strong Texas accent. The other is from Kansas, by way of Oklahoma, and doesn't seem to depart much from the National TV News Anchor standard. In other words, he sounds enough like me that I don't feel that he has an accent.

(I prompted each one by showing a bottle of distilled water and asking what was in it.)

So, what other pronunciations might I have expected to run across?

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Mike Wright
http://www.raccoonbend.com
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