ont/ahnt (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
<Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:
> In my post on the subject, where I intentionally typed "ont", it was to
> specifically distinguish it from "ahnt". Â That is, in the dialect of the
> people whose pronunciation I was trying to reproduce, "ont" did not/does
> not equal "ahnt".
>

What pronunciation *is* it meant to approximate, then? Don't leave me
hanging! ;-)

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-Wilson
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