When I was growing up, we laughed at people who pronounced Aunt "ont". And Erin/Aaron rhyme, to me.
Everything looks good from here... Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... 'This Land.' I think we should call it 'your grave!' Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! Ha ha HA! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die! Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!
Wash ,'Serenity'
Natter 52: Playing with a full deck?
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Connie Neil - Jul 08, 2007 4:52:12 pm PDT #7049 of 10001
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Scrappy - Jul 08, 2007 4:52:34 pm PDT #7050 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I say An-tee, as do all of my Midwestern-raised relatives.
gives Cowgirl the stinkeye
Kat - Jul 08, 2007 4:53:32 pm PDT #7051 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
did K tell you that she thought squash was nasty?
Hawaii has the surplus of vowels. Wales, a sore lack thereof.
If only the two could get together and have a continental kid, it would have both the perfect number of consonants and vowels and the perfect temperate weather.
Jesse - Jul 08, 2007 4:54:35 pm PDT #7052 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Hey, I said it was regional, not right!
Anyway, I think the thing on my pants was a water spot, and I did make it worse. Greeeaaaat.
Monique - Jul 08, 2007 5:06:32 pm PDT #7053 of 10001
I say An-tee, as do all of my Midwestern-raised relatives.
Midwesterner checking in to back up Robin on the An-tee.
I have pimped The Book at Whedonesque, and lured my mother-in-law into reading it. It's been a full weekend.
sarameg - Jul 08, 2007 5:14:03 pm PDT #7054 of 10001
I say An-tee, as do all of my Midwestern-raised relatives.
Ohntee from this product of midwesterners. Of course, there's some recent immigrant mixed in there. But given the non-immigrant Minnesotans make up the most aunties....Maybe sw Mn and SD are a bit different.
sumi - Jul 08, 2007 5:15:22 pm PDT #7055 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
I mostly find Nadal annoying but he plays so well and today's match was a total nail biter.
And check out the BBC's amusing commentary on the Murray/Jankovic vs. Bjorkman/Molik mixed doubles finals.
Hil R. - Jul 08, 2007 5:15:26 pm PDT #7056 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
New Yorker, child of one New Yorker and one New Englander here. I generally say an-tee, but sometimes switch over to ahn-tee without really noticing. Same thing with bath and bahth.
Cashmere - Jul 08, 2007 5:21:15 pm PDT #7057 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
I just say Aunt ____. I've never used "Auntie."
JenP - Jul 08, 2007 5:21:27 pm PDT #7058 of 10001
Non-mid-westerner, also pronounce it an-tee.
Our B&N is way the hell over yonder, so I can't go check it out until Wednesday. Am saddened by this. But, it's only a couple of days; I can tough it out. I was going to try to go today, but that didn't pan out at all.
Yikes. I have to throw a load of laundry in tonight, or things will not be pretty tomorrow.
ETA: Well, OK, I also say Aunt ____ like Cash. If I did say Auntie, it'd be an-tee.
ETAA: I sort of adore the "How do you pronounce X?" roll calls. It's very... comforting isn't the right word, but it's something like that.