Do you pronounce aunt like ant rhymes with pant or like aunt rhymes with haunt?

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  4. It’s weird. When I see it written, it always rhymes with haunt in my head. But as soon as I talk to one of my Aunts, it’s pronounce Ant.

  5. Like it rhymes with pant. And also, in my accent, the other pronunciation doesn’t actually rhyme with haunt.

  8. Depends if I’m talking about my Mom’s cool sister or the stuck-up lady who married my Dad’s brother.

  17. Ant when I’m referring to a specific person (ex. Aunt Jane), haunt when I’m talking about aunts in general. Mostly.

  19. Ant when referring to the general relative, rhyming with haunt when using as a part of a specific aunt’s name like “Aunt Sue”. No idea why I do this.

  38. Ant.

    When I was in 4th grade we moved from MD to WA. “Aunt” was one of our vocabulary words and my teacher stated that pronouncing it like “haunt” was an East Coast thing. She looked at me and said, “I bet [CaptainAwesome06] pronounces it like that, right?”

    “No. No I don’t.”

    My family wasn’t even from the East Coast. My mom was born in California.

  40. I live in the midwest but was born in the northeast. I will die on this hill. Find me another word in the English language that starts with the letters AU where the U is silent.

    Aunt is pronounced like haunt.

  41. I pronounce aunt like ant, others like aunt like haunt, my dad and a lot of his family say aunt like ain’t.

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