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Posted: 9/7/2010 3:39:41 AM EDT
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Ant
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Posted: 9/7/2010 3:40:15 AM EDT
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Like it's spelled.
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Posted: 9/7/2010 3:40:19 AM EDT
[#3]
Ant
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Posted: 9/7/2010 3:40:42 AM EDT
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Ant.
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Posted: 9/7/2010 3:41:33 AM EDT
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ant
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Posted: 9/7/2010 3:41:34 AM EDT
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I say it like "ant". I've noticed most white people say "ant" and most black people say "awnt". No idea why.
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Posted: 9/7/2010 3:46:33 AM EDT
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I think all of you who pronounce it "ant" are weird, but I guess there are a lot of you.
Here is a map. http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/staticmaps/q_1.html "Ahnt"  "Ant"  |
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Posted: 9/7/2010 3:54:49 AM EDT
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I think all of you who pronounce it "ant" are weird, but I guess there are a lot of you. I think you should ignore us and just keep saying it the way you say it. Makes you easier to pick out. |
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Posted: 9/7/2010 4:06:55 AM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: I think all of you who pronounce it "ant" are weird, but I guess there are a lot of you. I think you should ignore us and just keep saying it the way you say it. Makes you easier to pick out. Oh, don't worry about that. I say wicked and use other New England colloquialisms often enough to make that not too difficult. |
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Posted: 9/7/2010 4:08:08 AM EDT
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I say both.
I have an Ant Janet and an Ahnt Lorraine. Maybe I'm just weird. 
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Posted: 9/7/2010 4:08:43 AM EDT
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Posted: 9/7/2010 4:08:46 AM EDT
[#12]
ant/tante
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Posted: 9/7/2010 4:19:14 AM EDT
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Come to think of it, I say both. It really depends on who I'm talking to, I guess. I was taught "awnt" though.
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Posted: 9/7/2010 4:36:57 AM EDT
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Posted: 9/7/2010 4:37:59 AM EDT
[#15]
Correctly.
How do you pronounce automatic? author? autism? audacity? Why would you switch to "ant" when it's clearly "aunt". Your "ant" probably worshed your clothes, eh? |
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Posted: 9/7/2010 4:42:22 AM EDT
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Correctly. How do you pronounce automatic? author? autism? audacity? Why would you switch to "ant" when it's clearly "aunt". Your "ant" probably worshed your clothes, eh? It's called an idiom, and the English language is replete with them. |
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Posted: 9/7/2010 4:42:58 AM EDT
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I think all of you who pronounce it "ant" are weird, but I guess there are a lot of you. I think you should ignore us and just keep saying it the way you say it. Makes you easier to pick out. Oh, don't worry about that. I say wicked and use other New England colloquialisms often enough to make that not too difficult. How do you pronounce "yolk" as in the yellow stuff in an egg? We've got a yankee up at work and had this discussion the other day and I'd like to compare. |
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Posted: 9/7/2010 4:44:32 AM EDT
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Actually, I pronounce it "ant", but when using it with a name, I say "ain't".
"ain't" Jane is my "ant". Also, we smash the ain't to the name. Like "ain'tjane". |
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Posted: 9/7/2010 4:44:38 AM EDT
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Posted: 9/7/2010 4:49:32 AM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I think all of you who pronounce it "ant" are weird, but I guess there are a lot of you. I think you should ignore us and just keep saying it the way you say it. Makes you easier to pick out. Oh, don't worry about that. I say wicked and use other New England colloquialisms often enough to make that not too difficult. How do you pronounce "yolk" as in the yellow stuff in an egg? We've got a yankee up at work and had this discussion the other day and I'd like to compare. I have always pronounced it "yok" (like folk or coke, but with a y). How do you say it? |
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Posted: 9/7/2010 5:08:48 AM EDT
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Quoted: Soon is poll. I pronounce it it as Tia "Tee Ah". I'm Spanish and my family is Cuban. We speak still speak spanish even though we all speak English perfectly. Why? Because Aunt sounds like a bug. |
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Posted: 9/7/2010 5:10:10 AM EDT
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ain't
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Posted: 9/7/2010 5:15:14 AM EDT
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Posted: 9/7/2010 5:15:40 AM EDT
[#24]
ant
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Posted: 9/7/2010 5:24:02 AM EDT
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The U is silent.
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Posted: 9/7/2010 5:25:35 AM EDT
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Did you even click the thing that says it for you?
ETA: Reading on... they used a whole lot of words to say what we already know: —Pronunciation note The usual vowel of aunt in the United States is the /æ/ Show Spelled[a] Show IPA of rant except in New England and eastern Virginia, where it is commonly the “New England broad a, ” a vowel similar to French /a/[a] and having a quality between the /æ/[a] of hat and the /ɑ/[ah] of car. The vowel /ɑ/[ah] itself is also used. In New England and eastern Virginia /ɑ/[ah] or the /a/[a]-like sound occur in aunt in the speech of all social groups, even where a “broad a ” is not used in words like dance and laugh. Elsewhere, the “broader” a is chiefly an educated pronunciation, fostered by the schools with only partial success (“Your relative isn't an insect, is she?”), and is sometimes regarded as an affectation. Aunt with the vowel of paint is chiefly South Midland United States and is limited to folk speech. The /æ/[a] pronunciation of aunt was brought to America before British English developed the /ɑ/[ah] in such words as aunt, dance, and laugh. In American English, /ɑ/[ah] is most common in the areas that maintained the closest cultural ties with England after the /ɑ/[ah] pronunciation developed there in these words. |
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Posted: 9/7/2010 5:29:20 AM EDT
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I think all of you who pronounce it "ant" are weird, but I guess there are a lot of you. I think you should ignore us and just keep saying it the way you say it. Makes you easier to pick out. Oh, don't worry about that. I say wicked and use other New England colloquialisms often enough to make that not too difficult. How do you pronounce "yolk" as in the yellow stuff in an egg? We've got a yankee up at work and had this discussion the other day and I'd like to compare. I say "yoke". Also say ant. |
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Posted: 9/7/2010 5:29:28 AM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Correctly. How do you pronounce automatic? author? autism? audacity? Why would you switch to "ant" when it's clearly "aunt". Your "ant" probably worshed your clothes, eh? It's called an idiom, and the English language is replete with them. It is the way Americans speak it. It's laziness. This is one area the Brits have us. They speak English properly (at least moreso than we). They pronounce been as seen. Again is the same as gain ,as it should be. Boot, loot, foot and roof all have the proper oo sound as in boo. The real problems come from words of different origins and therefore different pronuciations. We homeschool. It becomes blatently how mess up English is when you are trying to teach a first grader that "comb" and "tomb" while looking just alike actually sound differently. But why daddy? Just because.... Since when is "just because" an acceptable answer. 2+2+4 "just because?" For the record, I also pronounce the "L" in yolk, folk, polk. I say woLf not woof. I also can't stand when people leave out the "L" in old, cold, bold. You're making different words, there. Ode, code, bode. Another ( that aggrevates me) is idiots who pronounce "ing" as "een" . Skying becomse skeen which is a sheaf of yarn, not an activity on a snowy slope. |
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Posted: 9/7/2010 5:29:40 AM EDT
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I say "awnt" but refer to my aunts as "Ant-ee". My wife likes to highlight the anomaly.
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Posted: 9/7/2010 5:31:54 AM EDT
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I pronounce it correctly.
"Awnt". My female relatives are not insects. |
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Posted: 9/7/2010 5:33:02 AM EDT
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Around here, only blacks use awnt.
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Posted: 9/7/2010 5:37:19 AM EDT
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Ant |
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Posted: 9/7/2010 5:57:56 AM EDT
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Correctly. How do you pronounce automatic? author? autism? audacity? Why would you switch to "ant" when it's clearly "aunt". Your "ant" probably worshed your clothes, eh? It's called an idiom, and the English language is replete with them. It is the way Americans speak it. It's laziness. This is one area the Brits have us. They speak English properly (at least moreso than we). They pronounce been as seen. Again is the same as gain ,as it should be. Boot, loot, foot and roof all have the proper oo sound as in boo. The real problems come from words of different origins and therefore different pronuciations. We homeschool. It becomes blatently how mess up English is when you are trying to teach a first grader that "comb" and "tomb" while looking just alike actually sound differently. But why daddy? Just because.... Since when is "just because" an acceptable answer. 2+2+4 "just because?" For the record, I also pronounce the "L" in yolk, folk, polk. I say woLf not woof. I also can't stand when people leave out the "L" in old, cold, bold. You're making different words, there. Ode, code, bode. Another ( that aggrevates me) is idiots who pronounce "ing" as "een" . Skying becomse skeen which is a sheaf of yarn, not an activity on a snowy slope. You don't speak or spell very well.
Brits don't speak English well, either. You may think they pronounce words more phonetically or "correctly," but they drop articles all the time. To an American speaker, they sound like uneducated children with all their "I go to university" or "We just brought my mother to hospital." "Just because" also isn't the answer. There are etymological reasons that explain why we pronounce words. American English has influences from all different languages, so that accounts for some of the seemingly inconsistent pronunciations. There are also regional differences that affect pronunciation, or word combinations that change pronunciation (think "an historical" versus "a historical"). Granted, those explanations might be above a first grader's level or interest, but the real answer isn't "Just because." I say ant. Here, only black people and wealthy white people with an affected accent say ahnt. |
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Posted: 9/7/2010 6:01:26 AM EDT
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"Ain't." Same as in "far aints."
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Posted: 9/7/2010 6:02:12 AM EDT
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Usually "ant" but occasionally "ain't" depending on the phase of the moon and the price of gold.
"Awnt" just sounds pretentious or British. |
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Posted: 9/7/2010 6:03:44 AM EDT
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Zadda far ain't? |
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Posted: 9/7/2010 6:45:13 AM EDT
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Like it's spelled. 
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Posted: 9/7/2010 6:48:06 AM EDT
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Ant
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Posted: 9/7/2010 6:49:24 AM EDT
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Posted: 9/7/2010 6:49:31 AM EDT
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like the picture above
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Posted: 9/7/2010 6:51:07 AM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I think all of you who pronounce it "ant" are weird, but I guess there are a lot of you. I think you should ignore us and just keep saying it the way you say it. Makes you easier to pick out. Oh, don't worry about that. I say wicked and use other New England colloquialisms often enough to make that not too difficult. How do you pronounce "yolk" as in the yellow stuff in an egg? We've got a yankee up at work and had this discussion the other day and I'd like to compare. I say "yoke". Also say ant. Same |
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Posted: 9/7/2010 6:51:29 AM EDT
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I think all of you who pronounce it "ant" are weird, but I guess there are a lot of you. Here is a map. http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/staticmaps/q_1.html "Ahnt" http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/staticmaps/q_1_1.gif "Ant" http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/staticmaps/q_1_2.gif I wonder who the idiot is in Pharump, NV that pronounces it "Ahnt"? |
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Posted: 9/7/2010 6:52:19 AM EDT
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I always knew Beatrice, Nebraska was odd.
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Posted: 9/7/2010 6:53:17 AM EDT
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Quoted: Around here, only blacks use awnt. Same here |
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Posted: 9/7/2010 6:53:26 AM EDT
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Ant.
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Posted: 9/7/2010 6:53:35 AM EDT
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Ive only hear ant around here unless a black person is talking.
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Posted: 9/7/2010 6:55:46 AM EDT
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Correctly. How do you pronounce automatic? author? autism? audacity? Why would you switch to "ant" when it's clearly "aunt". Your "ant" probably worshed your clothes, eh? So, when you laugh, do you say, "Excuse me for loffing"? Are you Ted Kennedy's fot oss relative? |
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Posted: 9/7/2010 7:09:54 AM EDT
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Aun-TAY
Of course, I also say, "strenfs." |
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Posted: 9/7/2010 7:12:13 AM EDT
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I alternate between the two common pronunciations depending on how I'm using it.
I have two aunts (rhymes with font), and I have an Aunt Mel and an Ant Kathy (same as "ant") |
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