POLL: a word pronounciation

[morkinva]

How do you say the word 'aunt' ? And why the difference, is it a southern thing?

aunt number one

aunt number two

 

[HappyPuppy]

"Pronunciation", not "pronounciation."

Oooh! You mean the word "aunt". Probably depends on how rich and stuck up you are, or what part of the English speaking world you live in. I'm too lazy to look it up in a dictionary.

 

[bmacd]

i couldn't get the mirriam-webster thing working, but i pronounce it like ant. A lot of my friends of the dark persuasion (read: black) say auntie.

-=bmacd=-

 

[Booster]

I'll put my money on 'Ant'.

 

[BigFatCow]

ant...

 

[eakers]

i say "ant" for my aunts and "ant-ty"for my great aunts.

 

A-N-T.

 

[JC]

I say 'ant'....but Peter Parker said 'awnt'

JC

 

[LOLyourFace]

gib... is it hard G gib or Jib?

 

[dfi]

I use both. I like to switch it up.

dfi

 

[SOSTrooper]

I use it in cantonese, never had to use it in english

and its jib.

 

[Supermercado]

I say it like "ant."

 

[dolph]

Originally posted by: LOLyourFace
gib... is it hard G gib or Jib?

gib is short for giblet. hard g.

 

[C'DaleRider]

gib... is it hard G gib or Jib?

gib is pronounced gib, not jib.

 

[kherman]

Originally posted by: dfi
I use both. I like to switch it up.

dfi

Good to see people here swing both ways.....ummm,. did I say that out loud?

 

[Noriaki]

I say it Ant or Ant-ee

As for Gib, it's definately gib not jib.

It comes from Giblet...Viscera of Fowl

 

[C'DaleRider]

gib is short for giblet. hard g.

Correct pronunciation, but wrong definition.

Gib is a word that means:

1. a plain or notched piece of wood or metal to hold parts of a machine or structure in place or provide a bearing surface

2. a male cat, esp. a castrated one

Gib. is an abbreviation for Gibralter

There is no "short" for giblets........... and giblets is pronounced jiblets.

 

[GhettoFob]

Originally posted by: kherman

Originally posted by: dfi
I use both. I like to switch it up.

dfi

Good to see people here swing both ways.....ummm,. did I say that out loud?

I guess I swing both ways too. :Q

 

[SOSTrooper]

I guess I really have a bad memory... I remembered the guys hosting the Q3 Tour 3 years ago told us its jib... lol. Maybe I wasnt listening too well and was staring at those spanking new Athlon systems....

 

[oblizue]

Both are pefectly fine ways to say "aunt".

I say "awnt" btw.

 

[Noriaki]

Originally posted by: C'DaleRider
Gib is a word that means:

1. a plain or notched piece of wood or metal to hold parts of a machine or structure in place or provide a bearing surface

2. a male cat, esp. a castrated one

True enough...but what does that have to do with Gibbing someone?

Gib. is an abbreviation for Gibralter

Gibralter isn't a word, and if you mean Gibraltar, then that is a soft g. http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=Gibraltar

and giblets is pronounced jiblets.

Seems it swings both ways if you look at Giblets you get a soft ghttp://www.dictionary.com/search?q=Giblets.
But if you look at Giblet you get a hard G http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=giblet

And the whole viscera part (from "n : edible viscera of a fowl") makes a lot more sense in the context of Gibbing than a male cat or notched piece of a machine.
Maybe it's wrong but coming from Giblets is the place I've always heard of Gibbing being from.

Like this:

gib
GIB, v. To destroy a person with such utterly excessive force that pieces of his body splatter all over a room (luckily, this word has found no application in the real world?). (?I?m going to gib you next chance I get.?) [Clipping of GIBLET to GIB, and adaptation of this word to the action that produces it.]

From http://dacnet.rice.edu/projects/ling215/wordjournal/arrays.cfm
Gib from Giblet is the generally accepted origin...though everyone I know always says Gib...maybe it should be Jib....

 

[thawolfman]

Originally posted by: dfi
I use both. I like to switch it up.

dfi

 

[SHoddyCOmp]

I say it like ant.