.”awnt” for “aunt”
As a pronounciation, or written? Perfectly acceptable pronounciation.
.”T-boned” as in “the car was T-boned in the crash” - I have no idea what that means
Common figure of speech. Means that one car impacted the other directly from the side, making a “T” shape, like a “T-bone”
.”oh-mawj” for “homage”
It’s a french word and that’s another perfectly good pronounciation of it. How do you pronounce it? “home-adj”?
.”awnt” as a pronunciation - it’s stilted. I never heard anyone say it until the past few years.
.T-boned is a common figure of speech? Not to me, it isn’t. Is that what the cops and insurance companies put on their accident reports? Why is it a meat comparison? The letter T itself is T-shaped.
Does the car that was hit broadside (what they used to call this kind of crash) have to have formed a curve around the perpendicular car in order for it to be a T-bone? And does the broadsiding car have to hit it exactly mid-length? What if it clips it closer to the front or back - why do news announcers still call that a “T-bone”?
.Homage was originally a French word a couple of hundred or more years ago, which has been adapted for American English usage - and it had been pronounced “HAWmuj” for many, many years before Hollywood started this silly pronunciation, probably by someone trying to show off a stilted French accent. Once again, to my ear, it sounds like a put-on affectation.