The "a" in "shanty" sounds like in "can" or like in "can't"?

Question

if "can" and "can't" have the same vowel sound for you, don't answer the question.

Answer 1

Short as in can. Shanty rhymes with panty.
Shanty can mean a song sung by sailors as well as for terms like shanty town.
Boa sorte gatinha!

Answer 2

yeah, can.

i assume this is shanty as in shanty town and not some other use of the word shanty that i haven't heard before

Answer 3

I know what you mean, but I'm not letting your assertion that can and can't should not have the same sound for the 'a' go unchallenged. They SHOULD sound the same. If they don't, you're not saying it properly.

The 'a' in shanty is short, as in ant and ante. Aunty is your mother's sister.

Answer 4

"can".

i don't think i've ever heard anyone say "shahnty", whether American or English/Scotttish/Irish/Canadian, etc., but there's no reason it couldn't be.

as for "can" and "can't" requiring the same sound, that is not true, even in America. a very slight "ah" sound in "can't" can still be heard in very old and very prominent New York society people (like brooke astor, for example, who recently died, and whose generation is quickly dying off).

if you go to New England, and the Boston area in particular, for people who have the strong New England accent and say "pahk the cah in hahvahd yahd", they pronounce "can't" "cahn't"...

Answer 5

can, just listen to the song shanty town

Answer 6

"也跑来问老外" 是什麼意思 ?

Answer 7

The 'a' sounds the same in both "can" and "can't". Well, if you have a Scottish accent anyway!

Answer 8

It doesn't matter. In english people pronounce the words in many ways, as you are demostrating here.
I suppose you have heard that expression: "you say potato, I say poteito". "You say tomato, I say tomeito"

Answer 9

Like "can", "ban" or "lantern"

Answer 10

can...definitely