I heard the story of the Prescott namesake, a family from Britian wanted the pronunciation be differentiated from British English, to help separate from England, so he promoted the kit sound, which is a short vowel i.
Seems to me that Prescott pronounced with the short e, the short i, the short o and the short u all come out of the mouth about the same.
Short vowels:
a as in cat
e as in wet
i as in big
o as in clock
u as in but
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https://la.sharlothallmuseum.org/index. ... l-capital/