Daily Dose of BS April 19

A friend of mine and I got in to an argument over the word o-f-t-e-n. I say ofen she says offten. I asked the other people around the table at the bar how they pronounced the word and they all said offten as well, I disagreed…. I asked around the building here at work, I asked everyone and out of all the employees here at LaCrosse Radio all but four agreed with me with a pronunciation of ofen. Some of the answers of why they pronounced the word that way was, I am not British, I am not hoity toddy and don’t say tamatoe either, the t is silent, it is standard American dialect, according to the Websters New World Dictionary saying the word aw-fuhn; is first preferred and awf-tuhn is secondary. As a matter of fact to hear the proper way of saying the word often check out the dictionary.com website or just click here http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/often So who is right???