Quote by DanielleX
To my ears, the American pronunciation sounds like the A in the standard English pronunciation of Cat.
Dannielle my dear, I live in the Northeast United States and we are said to speak "Elizabethan English"
on the south coast of Massachusetts. The Elizabeth being referred to is Elizabeth I.
We say Wrath just as you now describe it, that is, with an "a" as in OUR way of saying "Cat" or our "at,"
"sat," "pat," "rat," "that" etc.
The "a" is shown on a phonemes chart as the short "a."
"General American English" is described here in this Wikipedia article which I believe is very accurate:
A table containing the consonant phonemes is given in given in this article with click on links to hear the sound on line:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_American#Phonology