How do you pronounce "aunt?"

[Formaldehyde]

Find a French/English web page and click on the "pronounce ante" button. That's what I did.

 

[EulerMcE]

I'm Irish and I say 'ant'.

 

[Arakhor]

Then it hinges on what we mean by ante. I take it to mean the Latin word 'before', whereas aunt and tante both descend from the Latin amita (your father's sister).

 

[Quackers]

I say it like Arakhor, "aren't".

"Ant" is bloody awful

 

[Chukchi Husky]

I think the closest is probably "ant".

 

[Formaldehyde]

Then it hinges on what we mean by ante. I take it to mean the Latin word 'before', whereas aunt and tante both descend from the Latin amita (your father's sister).

It quite clearly says from "O.Fr. ante", which was the same etymology given by M-W. It has nothing to do with the Latin "before".

 

[Arakhor]

Yes. Clearly.

 

[Hygro]

Ant as the designation, awnt as the prefix. But I switch those sometimes.

edit: maybe the other way around. I dunno, mostly ant anyway.

 

[madviking]

Virginian, 'awnt'.

 

[DroopyTofu]

I'm from the Mid-South (Amurica of course) and I say "Ant" almost all the time. For some reason, I call my great aunt Ann "Aint Ann". As in "I ain't got no chickens". No clue why I do this though but saying it normally with her name just doesn't feel right.