Does the way you say 'France' rhyme with 'pants' or 'aunts'? How the Australian accent is changing
Does the way you say 'France' rhyme with 'pants' or 'aunts'? How the Australian accent is changing
Australian voices really aren't what they used to be. Linguists and ABC presenters weigh in on the changes to Aussie voices and the death of the ABC accent.
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I think it depends a lot on how you say 'aunts'
I don't think any Australians pronounce it like "ant".
I do
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.
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
I think we need to address your use of the word candy first. It's lollies m8, fite me
I'm American who wandered in, sorry
I'll give you a pass just this once cobber, just don't shoot 🔫
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).
For me it's "AHnt" for Aunt, "frANce" for France, and "pANts" for pants.