Comments on: Aunt should not sound like ant. https://www.anotherjennifer.com/aunt-should-not-sound-like-ant/ blog + writing lab Fri, 18 Apr 2014 14:06:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 By: Nazim https://www.anotherjennifer.com/aunt-should-not-sound-like-ant/#comment-2143 Fri, 18 Apr 2014 14:06:40 +0000 http://anotherjennifer.com/?p=7486#comment-2143 It has always annoyed me, too. I had this friend (key word “had”), who would always make fun of me for saying it the correct way. And I would always back up my argument by saying that “August isn’t Agast” and “augment isn’t agment.” He then had the nerve to roll his eyes at me. Curious!

]]> By: Best of the another jennifer blog: 2012 https://www.anotherjennifer.com/aunt-should-not-sound-like-ant/#comment-2142 Thu, 27 Dec 2012 09:45:09 +0000 http://anotherjennifer.com/?p=7486#comment-2142 […] Aunt should not sound like ant. […]

]]> By: anotherjennifer https://www.anotherjennifer.com/aunt-should-not-sound-like-ant/#comment-2141 Sat, 24 Nov 2012 13:12:44 +0000 http://anotherjennifer.com/?p=7486#comment-2141 In reply to Tamara.

It’s funny how one word can be said so many ways!

]]> By: Tamara https://www.anotherjennifer.com/aunt-should-not-sound-like-ant/#comment-2140 Sat, 24 Nov 2012 13:07:02 +0000 http://anotherjennifer.com/?p=7486#comment-2140 Guilty as charged! Michiganders just say, “Ant.” That’s me, though I do tend to soften the sound and round it to be a mix of the two when I’m speaking to the French or English in my life.

]]> By: anotherjennifer https://www.anotherjennifer.com/aunt-should-not-sound-like-ant/#comment-2139 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 01:34:08 +0000 http://anotherjennifer.com/?p=7486#comment-2139 In reply to Alysia.

I don’t rhyme it. And then I complain about it. Every time. It’s probably irritatin to my kids too. 🙂

]]> By: Alysia https://www.anotherjennifer.com/aunt-should-not-sound-like-ant/#comment-2138 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 20:01:08 +0000 http://anotherjennifer.com/?p=7486#comment-2138 My parents were New Yorkers so they always said it “ant”. My husband grew up in Lowell, and say is Aunt. That part of the book bugs him like crazy. He just doesn’t rhyme it 🙂
My kids find his lack of rhyming wicked irritatin. 🙂

]]> By: anotherjennifer https://www.anotherjennifer.com/aunt-should-not-sound-like-ant/#comment-2137 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:23:30 +0000 http://anotherjennifer.com/?p=7486#comment-2137 In reply to Leslie.

It’s funny how the pronunciation of words can get to us! Thanks for stopping by.

]]> By: Leslie https://www.anotherjennifer.com/aunt-should-not-sound-like-ant/#comment-2136 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 02:33:15 +0000 http://anotherjennifer.com/?p=7486#comment-2136 Too funny! I popped over from SITS just because I’ve always wondered about this. For some reason, I can’t stand to hear it pronounced any way other than “ant”. Must be because my family originally hails from the midwest!

]]> By: anotherjennifer https://www.anotherjennifer.com/aunt-should-not-sound-like-ant/#comment-2135 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 22:42:32 +0000 http://anotherjennifer.com/?p=7486#comment-2135 In reply to OneMommy.

Ugh. That line gets me every time. The book clearly wasn’t written by a New Englander.
I hope you had a great SITS Day! (Mine was so overwhelming…in a good way.)

]]> By: anotherjennifer https://www.anotherjennifer.com/aunt-should-not-sound-like-ant/#comment-2134 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 22:40:27 +0000 http://anotherjennifer.com/?p=7486#comment-2134 In reply to jen.

Southerners can pick a Northern accent up from anywhere! (My husband is from Nashville.) Their version of Aunt is even crazier. I refuse to let my nephew call me “Antie.” 🙂

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