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Re: How would Twain have pronounced "Aunt"?
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In the South, there is also sounds like “ain’t.”



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From: Clay Shannon<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: How would Twain have pronounced "Aunt"?



Does anybody know, or have an educated guess, as to how Twain would have pronounced "Aunt"?
As one pronounces the name of the picnic-addicted insect, or as the first three letters of "Ontario"?
- B. Clay Shannon

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