WTF?
The entire northeast corridor pronounces it that way! This "ant" shit is just wrong.
It's "ahnt". We do speak ENGLISH you know.
This "ant" pronunciation comes from the Irish immigration.
Because calling her an "ant" just sounds like we're naming her after an insect... you silly! :biggrin:
Say "Aunt" as if they were at and english tea with their pinky it the air? Like auh-nt. Just a simple question! Thats all.
Yo' dude Brooklyn here also. well originally!
So why do we call a whore a hoe, thats like naming her after a gardening tool?
Yeah, and the "rake" that used to hold that distinction is mighty jealous. :wink:
YouTube - What's a Ho?
Yeah, and the "rake" that used to hold that distinction is mighty jealous. :wink:
YouTube - What's a Ho?
If you want a real answer, it's to do with linguistics. The fact is depending on where you are geographically, there are different dialects. This means depending on where you live, the people native to a given area will speak differently and pronounce things differently than another given area. This is why people from Boston speak and sound differently than people in Seattle for example. It's not just words that are pronounced differently, but syntax can be different as well as slang and colloquialisms.
People who think there is a right and wrong way to say something are just ignorant. Just like people who make fun of others who are speaking English as a second language and can't pronounce the same phonemes we can because they did not grow up with the same set of phonemes in their native language. So the best they can do is mimic the closet phoneme in their own native set. For instance, "L" is not phoneme present in Chinese. The closest phoneme on the IPA chart to an "L" sound is "R". Hence, the insensitive and asshole "Engrish" joke.
I'm a psycholinguist, so I know what I'm talking about...if you want me to nerd out more...then PM me.
The pronunciation like goes back to early plantation days. The whites, who taught them English were often freshly over from Britain. Blacks in the South also say "ax" for "ask", which is an old English form of ask. In the South till this day, Black English, or Ebonics, has long been a very separate form of English from Caucasians. Some older forms still apply. I have heard Blacks say, though, that it is because she isn't an insect, but the reason is rooted in historic usage.
Say "Aunt" as if they were at and english tea with their pinky it the air? Like auh-nt. Just a simple question! Thats all.
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But if one were going to question the pronunciation of "aunt", would not a linguist expect the question to be in the reverse? That is to say, wouldn't one more likely ask, "How would one get "ant" out of "aunt"? (Linguistically speaking)...
Blacks in the South also say "ax" for "ask", which is an old English form of ask. In the South till this day, Black English, or Ebonics, has long been a very separate form of English from Caucasians. Some older forms still apply.