In the South, there is also sounds like “ain’t.” Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10 From: Clay Shannon<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2019 9:21 AM To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> 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