Comment on Does the way you say 'France' rhyme with 'pants' or 'aunts'? How the Australian accent is changing

crossmr@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t think any Australians pronounce it like “ant”.

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  • eatham@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I do

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  • Salvo@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The correct Australian way to say ‘Aunt’ is how you would refer to Aunty Jack.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Aunty_Jack_Show

    Although I am sure that a lot of the right-wing neo-regressive nut jobs that have popped up in Australia over the last few years would love to refer to her as “anti-Jack” because of the transgender nature of the show.

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• GentlemanLoser@ttrpg.network ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah we need to resolve that first. Aunts are cool and take you to a theme park on summer break, whereas aunts don’t let you sit on the good furniture and the only candy they have are those lozenges with the wrapper that looks like a strawberry

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  • Sup3rlativ3@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think we need to address your use of the word candy first. It’s lollies m8, fite me

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    • GentlemanLoser@ttrpg.network ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m American who wandered in, sorry

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      • Sup3rlativ3@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’ll give you a pass just this once cobber, just don’t shoot 🔫

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  • tiredofsametab@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As a General American speaker, all three of those are the same vowel for me, but I don't think that's true in a lot of the world (and also not in at least part of the US).

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    • dgriffith@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      For me it’s “AHnt” for Aunt, “frANce” for France, and “pANts” for pants.

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