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Re: How do you pronounce Aunt?

‎07-07-2020 06:05 PM

@Cakers3 wrote:
"Ahnt"

Same, but people in my family have altered the pronunciation and I was not too happy to be called an insect name!😜

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Re: How do you pronounce Aunt?

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‎07-07-2020 06:07 PM - edited ‎07-07-2020 06:10 PM

ant

(or the foreign version of the word aunt for my fathers side of the family)

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Re: How do you pronounce Aunt?

‎07-07-2020 06:12 PM

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Re: How do you pronounce Aunt?

‎07-07-2020 06:18 PM

Growing up in New England, most of us here pronounced it AUnt!

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Re: How do you pronounce Aunt?

‎07-07-2020 06:21 PM

Want. Followed by her first name. When I was really little, I remember they were referred to as Your Auntie (First Name).

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Re: How do you pronounce Aunt?

‎07-07-2020 06:24 PM

Ant

Ahnt is just weird and I don’t know anyone who says it that way. 😂

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Re: How do you pronounce Aunt?

‎07-07-2020 06:25 PM

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Re: How do you pronounce Aunt?

‎07-07-2020 06:26 PM

I usually say "ant" (as in the bug), but both my parents say "ain't" (with a long "a" sound). I've heard lots of people from the eastern Kentucky mountains say it like that. ("ain't") Funny it never stayed with me since that's how my parents and grandparents pronounced it.