How do you pronounce "aunt"

[Kiwi_Fruit]

I’m confused. I pronounce it ‘ahnt’ and that does not rhyme with haunt in my idiolect. ‘Haunt’ sounds like hawnt (A little like the dictionary.com pronunciation).

So, everytime someone says they rhyme aunt with haunt, I go :dubious:

[Teacake]

Me: RP. Ahnt.
Partner: Lancashire. Ant. Or more commonly Anty.

[CanvasShoes]

I say “ant” and am a 40 year resident of Alaska, prior to moving up here, I lived in Washington state and California and most people I grew up with pronounced it the same way.

[hogarth]

@velomont

I grew up in Ontario but have lived in Halifax, NS on and off for nine years since '84. I say aunt like “ant” but the locals in Halifax say it like “ont”. It’s a regional thing here but I just can’t bring myself to do it because I would feel pompous and pretentious (I’m not saying that it is pompous and pretentious, however).

Yep, I knew a woman from Dartmouth who was always saying “ont” and “scollops” like the Queen was her Aunt Bessie.

[gang_green]

I say ant, but some relatives with more tenacious Tennessee roots say aint.

[Sunspace]

I say ‘ant’. I’m in Southern Ontario.

@AHunter3

@Malleus_Incus_Stapes

Aren’t “ont” and “awnt” the same?

Of course not. Ont rhymes with font. Awnt rhymes with haunt.

‘Font’ and ‘haunt’ rhyme for me. Now I’m confused.

@Serenata67

I’m with you, though. When I was younger, I was fascinated with British English. I spelled “blond” as “blonde”…

‘Blond(e)’ is one of those French-influenced words like fiancé(e): you spell it ‘blond’ if the person is male, and tack on the extra e to spell it ‘blonde’ if the person is female. Not a British/US thing at all as far as I know.

[Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension]

@Manwich

Australian, so I say “aahnt”. For me it rhymes with "can’t " but not “cant”, “rant” or “plant”. I pronounce “aunt” the same as “aren’t”.

My mum is from Australia, and I pronounce Aunt either “Ant” or “Aahnt”, depending on…damned if I know, it just comes out one way one time, and another way the next time.

Thanks to Attackmum, I say ‘brass’ like an American, but Brasso the cleaning product is “Brah-so”, since I never heard anyone else say the word but her till I was a grown up.