B_Stronzo
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Apparently the "Queens English".
Certainly in your case.
Here - KNOW what you're talking about. Before you name call and segregate people by their accents. Do you say "New JOISEY" and "cooahfee" for coffee?
The pronunciation of "Aunt" is entirely regional. To anyone in a three hundred mile radius of here if you say "my ant" for "my aunt" they'd think you were keeping an insect as a pet.
[URL]http://wpcontent.answers.com/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Loudspeaker.svg/11px-Loudspeaker.svg.png[/URL] aunt (help·info) - (1)(US) /ænt/, (UK) /ɑːnt/, (2) /ɑːnt/
Speakers with the trap-bath split invariably pronounce the word /ɑːnt/; however, those speakers without the split are not consistent. Pronunciation (2) preponderates in NewEngland and African American Vernacular English. The OED only lists pronunciation (2), although it lists an /æ/ alternative for most other words affected by the trap-bath split. Most American dictionaries list both.
People in Wiscahnsin pronounce the word "block" the way New Englanders say "black". Additionally there's a subtle difference between the way blacks generationally pronounce the word "aunt" - Oprah Winfrey (for example) says "ohnt". It appears to be pervasive in black parlance. Here it's more "ahnt". The difference is subtle but it's there.
If you're truly interested in this topic Bjorg I can recommend a book for you.
CapitolHillGuy said:Blacks in the South also say "ax" for "ask", which is an old English form of ask.
Unknown to me until I read that CHG! Thanks. Good info.
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