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Does the way you say 'France' rhyme with 'pants' or 'aunts'? How the Australian accent is changing (www.abc.net.au)
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[–] crossmr@kbin.social 23 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I think it depends a lot on how you say 'aunts'

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I don't think any Australians pronounce it like "ant".

[–] Salvo@aussie.zone 1 points 9 months ago

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

https://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.

[–] GentlemanLoser@ttrpg.network 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Sup3rlativ3@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] GentlemanLoser@ttrpg.network 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm American who wandered in, sorry

[–] Sup3rlativ3@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

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

[–] tiredofsametab@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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).

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 3 points 9 months ago

For me it's "AHnt" for Aunt, "frANce" for France, and "pANts" for pants.