How do you guys pronounce “aunt” and “auntie”?

33 comments

1. Ant & anty

2. Aunt as in ant. Auntie Annie’s is an example of assonance.

3. ‘Ahnt’ is the norm here (greater Boston area). Saying ‘ant’ is a dead giveaway for a non-native.

4. Ant and anty

5. Ant and anty.

   I sometimes say it a little bit like ahnt.

6. “awnt” and “awntee”

7. ant for all of my aunts except my great aunt from Boston, she made sure my cousins and I use the “correct” pronunciation

8. Ant

   I don’t say auntie

9. I say aunt that rhymes with want. My husband said aunt like ant. We are both from the same state but he’s white and I’m not. I think depending on region or race people say it differently.

10. I say ant, and I’ve never said auntie

11. I don’t say auntie ever, but would probably say ahntie if I did.

    I say aunt as ant.

    It’s not an insects name, it’s your mother or father’s sister.

    Perhaps youbare familiar with the many hundreds of other English words which sound the same but have different meaning? We even have a word for it. Homonym.

12. “ahnt”, because at some point during my childhood I heard it pronounced that way (on some TV show) and thought it sounded classier.

    When I found out it annoyed my parents as well? 100% guarantee that I was going to keep pronouncing it that way.

13. I’m from Minnesota so i have awnts, but most of my aunts are from Iowa and thus call themselves ants.

14. Aunt is not spelled ant and is not pronounced ant.

    I’m from near Boston.

15. Ant and antie.

16. I say ant and ante (like the gambling term).

17. I say awnt.

    Always wondered as a child on TV and movies why people said Ant.

18. Ant. I never use Auntie.

19. Aunt is ant. Never once have I said auntie.

20. Ant and antie

    anhnt and ahntie is what I would call being precocious pronunciations. Sort of like havvvvvuddd. I quit listening after that…..

    And now I want pretzels! Geez! 🙂 😉 🙂

21. ‘beloved aunt’

22. Ant.

    I don’t say Auntie, but it sounds so British to me I’d probably default to Awntie if it came up

23. Ahnt and Ahntie!

24. I pronounce it “ont” and don’t say auntie.

25. Both ways

26. Ant

27. I say it as “ant”. My grandmother pronounced it like “ain’t”.

28. Ant and ahntie. Or ‘Tita’

29. I pronounce it as ant.

30. AH-nt

31. Ant and ant only. My wife says ahntie

32. Ant and Anty.

33. I pronounce it “Ont” and “On-tea”

    Im black might have something to do with it