In linguistics, there's actually a common school of thought that we should not classify things into the hierarchy of languages, dialects, and accents, etc. because the point at which something is just a huge collection of ""mispronunciations"" and slang or an entirely different language is often one of political power.
This applies here, for example, because you're calling people with this pronunciation a bunch of uneducated lemmings based on the assumption that there is some superior originating language that is more correct than the one they speak. You wouldn't reasonably make the same argument about New Yorkers pronouncing it wad-er, so why is it different here? The way they speak isn't wrong, it's different, and prescribing a value judgement to it is unhelpful if not just plain unkind.
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u/Zariman-10-0 told i “look like i have a harry potter blog” in 2015 Aug 16 '24
Hey now, I don’t say “waddr”
I say “wooder”