How do you pronounce 'aunt'?

[nyhuskyfan]

Poll question: How do you pronounce 'aunt'?

I was raised in New England, so I'm in the 'rhymes with want' category, otherwise known as correctly. I fear I'm in the minority, though. The Dorothy influence (Antie Em, Antie Em) might be too much to overcome.

[kick-ass-bob]

1. NC born and raised by upstate NY father & Wisc. mother

I say it like the bug.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

2. Another New Englander

and another correct pronounciation of AUnt

On edit: If it's "ant", then is it also "aditorium" (instead of auditorium) or "lad" (instead of laud)?

[sybylla]

9. Then wouldn't it be waunt?

English spelling is so fucked, you can't even try to make sense of it. Gallager spent most of a show once going off on the weird and often contradictory spelling rules we have.

Blame it on Webster. We were speaking this language long before we tried to standardize spelling it. Who ever was on that "committee" must have been smoking something fierce.

[nyhuskyfan]

14. A fourth-grade english lesson...

How do you pronounce this word: ghiti

Answer: "fish". The 'gh' is usually pronouned like an 'f', and the 'ti' is commonly pronounced like a 'sh'.

Also, none of the following four words rhyme: tough, bough, cough, dough, even though they all look like they should be pronounced the same.

[calico1]

3. I am in CT. And here we say

"aunt" like "want." The other one is an insect!

[gpandas]

4. ant

[sybylla]

5. Wisconsin - like the bug

In fact, it is really rare to hear anyone in the state say it like want. That's how we spot the furiners.

[bif]

6. It's ant in Michigan

Although I've noticed that most blacks pronounce it aunt. Maybe a southern thing?

[calico1]

11. No, not Southern because most

New Englanders say "aunt"--"want."

Well, you Midwesterners also say "pop" instead of the correct "soda."

LOL. :crazy:

[Phillycat]

7. It's "ant" in Philadelphia, except for African Americans.

[Not Me]

8. Like the bug...and the other always sounds uppity to me

n/t

[Gildor Inglorion]

10. I was taught to pronounce it like "ant" in the North Georgia mountains

but the standard pronunciation there and throughout much of the American south is very much like "ain't." The pronunciation of "ass" sounds like a person from Illinois saying "ice."

[Supormom]

12. Here in Minnesota...

most people I know use the second pronunciation- aunt which rhymes with want.

[yellowcanine]

13. Ant - and I pronounce roof "rufe" and root "rute". Pennsylvania lad I am.