Talk:aunt

MY husbands aunt is what to our daughter and son? Is there a name for that?
 * A great-aunt is the aunt of one's parent. - TheDaveRoss 04:50, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

Young Aunties
I'm going to be an aunty soon but im not even 15.What could I be called except from Aunt or Aunty?


 * Whatever you want! My first thoughts are perhaps just your name, or if you (or your future neice/nephew's parents (presumably your sibling and their partner)) want something a bit more, perhaps you can use a word from another language you like the sound of.
 * As not many people are likely to notice this question here, I've copied it to the Tearoom, our central discussion page. Take a look at Tea room to see if other people have more suggestions. Thryduulf 02:21, 14 September 2008 (UTC)


 * By the time your niece/nephew is able to call you aunt, you will be 18. That’s old enough to be an aunt. —Stephen 17:00, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

Pronunciation errors
Two things (and perhaps someone who knows what they're doing, and how it may relate to other sections, can fix):

1) The IPA & Rhymes of each section have been swapped:  i) IPA: /ɑ:nt/ v. Rhymes: -ænt ii) IPA: /ænt/ v. Rhymes: -ɑːnt

2) RP & GA (General American) pronunciation differ:  in RP we say /ɑ:nt/ (rhyming with "ah").

For USA usage, see the (Bert Vaux) Dialect Survey (http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/), in particular, http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/staticmaps/q_1.html. This suggests >75% there say ≈"ant".

Something's wrong. Can anybody hear us? :) The pronunciations and the rhymes are chenged. I would correct it, but i don't know which one belongs to which dialect. My dictionary says American is the one pronounced with /&aelig;/, and British is with /ɑ/. Doesn't write anything about other dialects. Ferike333 15:52, 22 June 2009 (UTC)


 * In American English, aunt (the woman) and ant (the insect) are pronounced alike by the majority of speakers: [ænt]. However, it seems that most black Americans pronounce aunt as [ɑnt]. I have noticed recently that some younger white Americans are now pronouncing it [ɑnt] as well, but [ænt] still predominates. In Britain, the RP is [ɑ:nt]. —Stephen 16:28, 22 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Thank you very much. I've done it. The only thing I can't are the audio files. I can't listen to them so I don'T know which belongs where. Sincererly, Ferike333 18:21, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

RFV discussion: January–September 2016
RFV of two senses: "(informal) A great-aunt / grandaunt." and "A grandmother. (More often "auntie".)" Not to be confused with the more general sense 4, "An affectionate term for a woman of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin." - -sche (discuss) 22:29, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Could be worded better, but there's no doubt that "aunt" is used of grandaunts (with any number of "greats"), as for that matter is "uncle" of granduncles; and that friends (often cousins) of one's parents are also called "aunt" and "uncle". Documenting it may take some work, but I think this is pretty well-established.  Not sure about use of "aunt" for "grandmother", although I know that "grandmother" and "grandfather" are sometimes applied to elderly persons without any actual relationship.P Aculeius (talk) 22:42, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Friends of one's parents are sense 4. - -sche (discuss) 22:45, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Sorry, misread that part as an RFV of sense 4 as well as sense 2. However, the words aunt and uncle are regularly applied to all aunts and uncles, not merely the siblings of one's parents, but also their aunts and uncles, one's grandparents' aunts and uncles, etc.  Terms such as "great aunt" and "grandaunt" or "great-grandaunt" are typically trotted out only when there's some ambiguity.  You address your grandmother's aunt Mabel as "Aunt Mabel," not "Great-Grandaunt Mabel."  P Aculeius (talk) 23:07, 31 January 2016 (UTC)


 * RFV failed: No citations provided. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 20:24, 4 September 2016 (UTC)

Aunt: form of address to aunt
used, before a name or alone, as a form of address or reference to an aunt Microsoft® Encarta® 2009 --Backinstadiums (talk) 11:50, 19 November 2019 (UTC)