New Post
Search
HelpRe: Honesty
in reply to a message by queenv
With that spelling I feel two things; mostly that its pointless and will subject the kid to a lifelong "how to you spell that?". However, I also that it seems to be pushing a certain pronunciation. In England, we pronounce the "h" like HON-iss-tee (or if your common as muck like I am, it'd be ON-iss-teh) but Aunestie seems to force you to pronounce it a very American "AWN-iss-tee". So I can see why it might be used that way, to force a pronunciation
Still, it seems pointless.
I can't seem to find much on it, myself. Is it an alternate spelling or does it originate from a different source?
Still, it seems pointless.
I can't seem to find much on it, myself. Is it an alternate spelling or does it originate from a different source?
This message was edited 2/14/2020, 5:41 AM
Archived Thread - replies disabled
1
Replies
I doubt it's meant to make the preferred pronunciation clearer, because, I'm struggling to imagine an American pronouncing the H in honesty (so no reason to differentiate), the 'aun' would be more confusing if anything because some people pronounce 'aunt' like 'ant', and there'd be no reason to switch y to ie for pronunciation's sake.
My guess is it's a creative spelling or an unintentional misspelling that caught on and became its own thing.
My guess is it's a creative spelling or an unintentional misspelling that caught on and became its own thing.
1
I see some people pronouncing the "y" like "tay" and the "ie" forces "tee" but I don't know what accent that is
1
I don't know. I can't find that information either. I just took the fact that when you Google it, things come up, to indicate that it's an established, if unusual, name, and not the complete neologism I'd thought it was.
1