How do you pronounce "aunt?"

[IdiotsOpposite]

I pronounce it "Karen".

 

[sophie]

ænt

sometimes I pronounce it closer to

æj.ənt

 

[emzie]

Usually awnt, sometimes ant.

We put "r"s in things almost at whim though. E.g. Castle, pass, etc. "We" being "received pronunciation people".

Yeah, British posters can never complain about bastardization of English by Americans.

 

[Mise]

This is a recording of how I pronounce aunt: https://www.box.com/s/a6d17c9503894c2b39dc

 

[Turquoiside]

'Aunt' or course.

 

[JollyRoger]

ˈkuːɡə(r)

 

[Joecoolyo]

Ant

 

[Camikaze]

My pronunciation of "aren't" and "aunt" are indistinguishable. But that doesn't mean I pronounce either as an American would pronounce "aren't".

This is a useful link.

Google translate also appears to have localised their pronunciation, but it sounds pretty hideous to me. Probably because the word 'aunt' sounds hideous on its own no matter how you say it.

 

[MjM]

Ant, of course. Ont sounds weird, and all these other pronunciations make no sense to me.

 

[jtb1127]

I kind of pronounce it in the middle of ont and ant but it sounds more like ant.

This is a useful link.

It's funny when British people talk like yankees. His pronunciation of ant wasn't that great.

 

[Camikaze]

Sounds Australian rather than British, but point taken.

'Ont' is an interesting way to describe how you say it, because that again is I think a sound that'd be pretty different here. The same difference as here (assuming I'm imaging how you say 'ont' right).

 

[LucyDuke]

I'm from New England and I pronounce it almost like Mise but without the l.

 

[GenMarshall]

"Awnt", that's how I normally pronounce it.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

I doubt I've said aunt without adding a "y" anyway??

 

[metatron]

I'm curious how people in other parts of the nation and world pronounce this word.

I'm not sure if you are interested in the opinion of non-native speakers, but anyway.
It's clearly ɑ:nt.
Pronouncing it ænt is a horrible heresy.

Where the hell would the "r" come from?

You don't have to pronounce an "r" in "aren't"...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhotic_and_non-rhotic_accents

Now i've spent half an hour reading up on all the weirds things people do to English in the US.
Still haven't figured out where exactly 'my' English fits into all this...

 

[Traitorfish]

"Ant", unless you're a great Southern ponce, in which case it's "ouhrnt" or some such nonsense.

 

[ShahJahanII]

"Awnt" is how I pronounce it.
Most people say "ant" where I live though.

 

[7ronin]

Ant. Growing up, ont was always ridiculed as being stuffy and pretentious.

 

[Formaldehyde]

The etymology of the word suggests it comes from the French "ante" which is pronounced "awnt". But it has been Anglicized to "ant" like many other similar words.

 

[Arakhor]

Really? The brief search I did turned up the below, which is far more likely.

c.1300, from Anglo-Fr. aunte, from O.Fr. ante (Mod.Fr. tante, from a 13c. variant), from L. amita "paternal aunt" dim. of *amma a baby-talk word for "mother" (cf. Gk. amma "mother," O.N. amma "grandmother," M.Ir. ammait "old hag," Heb. em, Arabic umm "mother").

Ante from the Latin word "before" certainly has two syllables - an-tee.