Frank and Ernest by Thaves for March 17, 2021

So, she’s an ant’s aunt.

That would make her the Ants Aunt!

She ain’t any old ant. This ant is my aunt. She’s from Antarctica – so she’s cold – but she ain ‘t antisocial. She’s old, but she ain’t an antique.

When my aunt gets antsy, her antennae become like antlers, she anticipates questions, and (as she says with a lisp), she becomes “the ant with all the anthers”.

The ants are my friends, they’re blowin’ in the wind, the ants are they’re blowin’ in the wind.

Remember, an ant may be someone’s uncle

My mother’s sister used to work in the health care industry. I called her Auntie Biotic.

So she’s a pro-ant Aunti-ant.

It’s all in the pronunciation. Try AAAunt or Aint.

♪♫ "Just what makes that aunt of an ant

think she’ll get through to a brain like a plant?

Anyone knows an ant, can’t

explain an aunt to an ant." ♪♫

If she were really your mother (the queen’s) sister, shouldn’t she be off founding a colony of her own?

My New England Awnts would get SO irritated when we southwestern nieces and nephews called them “Ant.” Just another sign that New Mexico was the wild, wild, west.

wouldn’t be a problem if one pronounced aunt correctly

You need to spell it out for me.

Timely strip. We just had an invasion of ants in our kitchen this morning. No aunts.

Oh, that kind of aunt.

My uncle is so small, he looks like an ant

Here in MA, they do pronounce it correctly. Originally being from out of state, it still sounds weird.

How is being an aunt confusing?

FYI: All ants in an ant hill are children of the queen. The aunt of the worker ants would be a queen ant from the same hill as their queen but now living in her own hill giving birth to their cousins.

This one’s lost on all of the ‘Ont’-saying Northeast.