aunt/ant

[Margaret Lee]

I grew up in southwestern Virginia hearing my mother and her sister refer to their aunts as "ain'ts": "ain't Mary."


Beverly Flanigan <flanigan at OHIOU.EDU> wrote:
 A very sophisticated grad student of mine from
Tennessee [tIn at si] spoke of his Aunt Jane using "ain't" [ent]. And the 'u'
in "aunt" isn't pronounced, is it?

Margaret G. Lee, Ph.D.
Professor of English & Linguistics
  and University Editor
Department of English
Hampton University, Hampton, VA 23668
757-727-5769(voice);757-727-5084(fax);757-851-5773(home)
margaret.lee at hamptonu.edu   or   mlee303 at yahoo.com

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