I used the word “jaunt” in an earlier post. Sebleebler and I enjoy rhyming, and lately he’s been interested in how things are spelled. Seeing the word “jaunt” got me thinking about phonics and regional dialects.
I grew up pronouncing aunt like the insect, ant. Plungerhead grew up pronouncing it like “awnt”. If phonics was the only way to learn to read, I might have a harder time when first encountering words like “jaunt”, “haunt”, and “taunt”. On the other hand, learning about the aunt/ant exception might loosen my brain up to being more receptive to the gazillion other exceptions in written English. It’s ultimately a wash since our brains are quite capable of accepting such language idiosyncrasies into our personal knowledge repository, but it's fun to think about regardless.
How about these?
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