Tuesday, June 01, 2021

Adventures in dialect …

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I believe Pennsylvania is a part of the Northeast and I have always heard aunt pronounced ant. Ahhnt has always sounded pretentious in these parts.
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  1. George5:16 PM

    In the summers of my childhood, we regularly saw two or three aunts in western Pennsylvania. We and everyone else said "ant". I never heard the other until about 40 years ago in Washington, DC, and I don't think I hear it much.

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