Do you pronounce ‘dance’ like ‘ants/fancy’ or ‘dance’ like ‘aunts/advance’?
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as in “man’s”
But France rhymes with aunts
But some people in Australia say Aunts as ants
d-air-nce
D’air’nce
Dance and dancing sound like Ants but I occasionally use dance(aunts) as well
dance… there is no ‘t’ sound.
Depends on the context. In general speech it’s darnce or I’m darncing, but I might go to a Dants.
Depends on the flow of the sentence. I also say ‘dants’ – rhymes with ‘ants’. Pretty sure the long ‘ah’ sound was more common when I lived in Brisbane.
Depends on whether it’s a verb or noun. “Dants” is my verb, “d(aunts)” is my noun.
Ever thought that I might say the other word in a strange way as well!
I alternate
I pronounce it differently depending on who I am with and where I am.
I sometimes still say dance rhyming with aunts
I switch between both
I think I’m somewhere between ‘dance’ and ‘daynce’
I use both interchangeably
I use both, generally the activity is like aunts. For instance, “I had a dance (like aunts) at the school dance (like ants).”
I use da(r)nce for more ‘formal’ types of dancing, e.g. ballroom da(r)ncing, ballet da(r)ncing
I use dance as in cat for the verb and I use the cat and cart pronunciations interchangeably for the noun
I’m in a choir so if I was singing it, I’d pronounce it as ‘darnce’.
Interchangeable but the ants sound is winning. chance, advance still have the aunts sound most of the time
Interchangeably
it doesn’t rhyme with ants (it has no t)
It’s only a half rhyme with ‘ants’ on the nasalized ‘a’.
like “anne”
Like “cat” but longer, more like the vowel in “bad“.
Like cat but much more nasal
More often ants, sometimes aunts
My father is American – I tend to pronounce my a‘s like they do, as well as my r’s – other than that, my accent is aussie
My pronunciation of “dance” varies between a short ‘a’ and long ‘ah’. Same with “France“.
On a South Australian day, it’s aunts. Sometimes I correct myself from one to the other.
probably between aunts and ants as an adult! I got laughed at too much!
Sometimes ants sometimes aunts
Somewhere between ants and aunts
Sounds like pants.
The way I say “dance” is interchangeable. Sometimes it rhymes with “ants” and other times “aunts“.
They do NOT sound the same, but I seem to pick them depending on what flows – if
usually I say it more like darnce
Was always d(ants) until I went to NIDA where it became D(aunts). Now interchangeable depending company.
When I was growing up, I always said ‘dance’ to rhyme with ‘aunts’; I trained myself out of it because I didn’t want to sound snobby to the other children.
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