How do you pronounce ‘aunt’? (1 Viewer)

[mr roboto]

Well?

 

[AAABatteries]

Rhymes with Dawn

 

[Yankee23Fan]

Rhymes with Dawn

You know how to know you've been here too long?  I was gonna post literally the same thing. And I'm bummed you beat me, yet still giggling a little.

 

[Cheese and Crackers]

Rhymes with Dawn

No, more like Don

 

[Snickers]

Unt, the a is silent, rhymes with ####

 

[popeye]

If you pull in Chet or Otis dollars you need to use the sound in 'awe' - and you better bring some high class ####in' snobbery to complete the pronunciation.

For everyone else it's the bug.

 

[skol asylum]

Have done both ways but the losing one here is probably more correct.

Aunt

Flaunt

Taunt

 

[boom king]

Depends where you’re from. If you’re from where I’m from, you say Ant. If you’re from somewhere else that says it differently, it’ll sound different. 

 

[skol asylum]

I blame Andy Griffith and Ant B for the mispronounciation.

 

[DallasDMac]

Have done both ways but the losing one here is probably more correct.

Aunt

Flaunt

Taunt

"No.... No, man...####, no man. I believe you'd get your ### kicked saying somethin like that, man."

 

[massraider]

Hmm, I assumed most said it the same as me (awe).

It's not even close

 

[NotSmart]

If my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle.

Hard to say what I would call her then.

 

[bud29]

Dunno if it’s a regional thing, but my mom was born in NY and taught me to say it the second way. Nobody here in KS pronounces it that way though, and I would get strange looks every time I said it. That got old pretty fast so I just started saying it the first way.

 

[boom king]

If my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle.

Hard to say what I would call her then.

Uncle?

 

[McGarnicle]

Grew up in CT and always pronounced it awnt, then realized most people say ant and that sounds less fruity and pretentious, so I made the switch.

 

[NotSmart]

Uncle?

But it's my aunt. 

With balls.

 

[El Floppo]

Drunk

 

[mr roboto]

Yankees: Awnt

Ghetto: Unt

Border: Tia

Rest of country: Ant

Gotta say I never knew this. 

 

[Glass Joe]

Yankees: Awnt

Ghetto: Unt

Border: Tia

Rest of country: Ant

Love Yankee shtick. ?

i thought pronouncing it “awnt” was a southern thing.

 

[Nigel]

More like “ahnt” for me.

 

[Brony]

If my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle.

Hard to say what I would call her then.

I was expecting this to rhyme. 

 

[heckmanm]

I blame Andy Griffith and Ant B for the mispronounciation.

Andy said “Ain’t B”

 

[hagmania]

Other - Aint

 

[NotSmart]

I was expecting this to rhyme. 

If my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle.

I'm glad I don't have a hairy carbuncle. 

 

[McJose]

Ant /thread

 

[McJose]

If my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle.

I'm glad I don't have a hairy carbuncle. 

And just like that...Bob’s your uncle 

 

[raidergil]

Personal experience in upstate NY - whites say 'Ant' , blacks say 'Awnt'. Lived on Long Island & never heard 'Awnt'. Also had cousins in NC who used 'Ant'. On TV, that I have seen, it seems most blacks/African Americans prefer 'Awnt'

 

[rockaction]

Like the sound in awe. No doubt.  

 

[strykerpks]

It's almost like we have different dialects. Omg

 

[Raider Nation]

Rhymes with font.

 

[Zegras11]

Rhymes with font.

fawnt

 

[Encyclopedia Brown]

On TV, that I have seen, it seems most blacks/African Americans prefer 'Awnt'

On Sanford & Son, that is how Lamont always referred to Aunt Esther. 

 

[Mjolnirs]

ant, duh

 

[Rustoleum]

On Sanford & Son, that is how Lamont always referred to Aunt Esther. 

The big dummy.

 

[msudaisy26]

More like “ahnt” for me.

This is pretty much how I here it said. 

 

[rockaction]

The big dummy.

Wash your face, then your bleep.  

(Old Red Foxx joke.)  

 

[RokNRole]

Ah-oont

 

[Black Box]

As pretentiously as possible.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

I blame Andy Griffith and Ant B for the mispronounciation.

It's bugged me ever since I noticed both ants & bees are bugs.