ont/ahnt (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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In my post on the subject, where I intentionally typed "ont", it was to
specifically distinguish it from "ahnt".  That is, in the dialect of the
people whose pronunciation I was trying to reproduce, "ont" did not/does
not equal "ahnt".

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> Joel S. Berson
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> At 10/5/2010 08:49 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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> >On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 5:45 PM, David Wake <dwake at stanfordalumni.org>
wrote:
> > > "ont"
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> >In most dialects of AmE, "ont" = "ahnt."
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> Can you give me some examples where it doesn't?  And please don't say
> you won't.
>
> Joel
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