[Rte66]

This is English - it doesn’t have to rhyme with those words at all. We spell lots of words unlike their pronunciation.

“ant” is correct. Saying “awnt” is like you’ve only seen the word spelled, but never heard it said out loud by anyone, especially Auntie Mame.

[SoCal Pubbie]

And English allows different pronunciations for the same word. You know, to-may- toe, to- mah- toe, po- tay-toe, po- tah- toe. Petronski is correct. Check the dictionary, it will give both.

[-YYZ-]

Ah, I see now. The way you pronounce these things in your little corner of the world is the one and only correct way, is that it?

I’ve heard “aunt” pronounced as “awnt” all my life, and I’m 40, so it’s hardly a new concept.

And like it or not, using “t-boned” to refer to an accident where one car broadsides another is a common phrase. Most anyone I might ask would know perfectly well what it means.

Personally I find many southern US pronounciations of words extremely grating, like prounouncing “semi” as “sem-EYE”, but I know that that’s how it’s said down there.

You want to talk annoying, how about people who pronounce “film” and “kiln” as if they had two syllables, and “idea” as if it had an “r” sound on the end of it?