There are many words in the Queen's English that are similar in spelling but pronounced differently. I actually got into a heated discussion with one of my dear friends from here who insisted that only uneducated people pronounced aunt as 'ant'. I'm from the midwest, and my whole family pronounces the "au" in the word "aunt" just like the "au" is pronounced in the words "guant" or "flaunt". The sentence contains offensive content. Detroit is a destination for everyone. I'm Irish.You're all a bunch of racist morons with too much time on your hands. How boring. NAmE / dɪˈtrɔɪt / record. Now let me ax you sumpin. Welcome to the Michigan Accent Pronunciation Guide. Unfortunately, neither does your list (which isn't pronounced like ANY version of aunt, anyway).See a pattern here? My br.
Very few (I suppose I can't say none) pronounce it as "awnt". Well, for those who say ant, how many say it with the same assonance as hat, cat, at... and how many say it with the same vowel sound as care, air, etc.? And it's true, most people who would pronounce it "ont" usually say "ax" and generally speaking aren't the brightest folks.It's a shame that some people are so thinned skinned and self-righteous that they find "racism" in such an innocuous discussion. "au" has many different pronunciations depending on the word. Dictionary
Post-Shakespeare the word became ask. 24-Hour Proofreading Service—We proofread your Google Docs or Microsoft Word files. They are all pronounced "-aw"nt.
There is a "u" in there for a reason people, and it should not be ignored.Neilbert, you make an interesting observation, but the debate is between "a"nt and "ah"nt.
AU is pronounced as R. English is English, not American. "I have never heard a Westerner say "ont." Realistically I think everyone has one of two variations of the word in their verbal arsenal. Well if that is the case then why don't we pronounce the word little with no "t" sound in the word the way they do? I am a medical transcriptionist so I hear lots of pronunciations and most everyone says "ant," except me and my extended family. I'd like to think because of my higher SAT scores, I am smarter. 'pa pdd chac-sb tc-bd bw hbr-20 hbss lpt-25' : 'hdn'"> I was really bothered about the pronunciation, so I decided to look up the word on the internet and clicked on this site. danans on Nov 10, 2015 [-] Growing up in the Detroit area, I always associated the DEE-troit pronunciation with exclamations of a hyper-local flavor, like an announcer at an (american) football game saying "DEE-troit Lions! In Southeastern Virginia (Tidewater/Hampton Roads Region) For anyone with class or regional linguistic pride, "Aunt" usually sounds like "caught" and "haunt" because of our connection with the original people from England that came in the 1600's. He says he's always learned that it;s proper to say Ant, while I being from Canada prounce it Aunt.
However, when an American tries to sound too French pronouncing it, he/she sounds snooty. And it does not seem to matter what city or area they are filmed or where the litigants are from, black people pronounce aunt "awnt" or "awnty". I am very curious. Around here we say "ant" as in the animal (rhymes with "can't"). My family says "ant" and "ont." Place where you point to your palm to give directions. The same pronunciation can also have a dozen different spellings.PS - The dictionary is supposed to represent a consensus and be a final arbiter to allow some common method of communication. The Northeast (where I and most of my aunts live) is the region where "ahnt" is most common, but this amounts to about 10% of the U.S. population. Listing a bunch of words that have the vowel sound "aw-" cannot be used to support the pronunciation "ah-" over the the slightly more common "a".
Certainly not. Another cute thing I picked up from my Phillipino friends is the term of endearment "Auntie Baby" (ant-ee bay-bee) referring to your youngest Aunt.
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