ancient
/ˈeɪnʃənt/
adjective
- belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire ancient civilizations such as those of the Etruscans and Sumerians
- very old
Cambridge Dictionary
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Collins Dictionary
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Why do people pronounce ancient as "ankshient"?
Nobody does that, the usual pronunciation is "aynshunt". More on reddit.com
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October 25, 2024How do you pronounce the word "ancient"?
I'm English, I've lived in 3 English speaking countries and I've never heard a hard C sound! I've only ever heard "ainshnt" or sometimes "aintshnt" where ain rhymes with aim. More on reddit.com
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Reddit
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r/ENGLISH on Reddit: Why do people pronounce ancient as "ankshient"?
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I noticed that it doesn't depend on accents or even regions. Is it actually the right pronunciation and I'm just dumb maybe? Where does this pronunciation come from?
Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
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ancient adjective - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes | Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary at OxfordLearnersDictionaries.com
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French ancien, based on Latin ante ‘before’.See ancient in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee ancient in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic English
EasyPronunciation
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YouGlish
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Get Pronounce
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How to pronounce "ancient"
To pronounce ancient correctly, break it down into syllables (an-cient) and practice emphasizing the first syllable. You can listen to sample pronunciations from native speakers and record yourself using online tools like getpronounce.com to ...
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Published September 7, 2020
Encyclopedia Britannica
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How to pronounce ancient in English - Definition and synonyms of ancient in English
How to pronounce ancient in English. The definition of ancient is: a very old...
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Reddit
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I live in Scotland and heard both an-shunt and an-chunt, but I'm listening to an audiobook rn where the narrator (American, I think) pronounces it anc-shunt with a hard k. Is this how all Americans pronounce it? Are there other pronunciations?
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As far as I know (as a west coast American) everyone here says it more like “ayn-chent”. Pronouncing it like there’s a hard K sounds bizarre and not something I’ve ever heard here before. Edit: I’m still baffled by anyone saying it with a hard K, but it seems like most of the people who have said or heard that are from the Great Lakes area of the US? As others have pointed out though I’m curious how you would linguistically justify the C being two distinct sounds/syllables. In order to pronounce it “Aynk-shent” it would need to be spelled like “Anccient”. Also, how do these people pronounce words like “omniscient” and “prescient”? I’m also pretty confused by the people here I’ve seen adding another consonant sound before the “-cient”, like a G or T sound that clearly isn’t there either. I do understand dialects obviously, but there’s no linguistic reason there would be ANY extra consonant sounds added between “ayn” and “chent/chunt/etc”
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I'm English, I've lived in 3 English speaking countries and I've never heard a hard C sound! I've only ever heard "ainshnt" or sometimes "aintshnt" where ain rhymes with aim.
TikTok
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Wiktionary
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ancient - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
^ Hurd, Seth P. (1847), “Ancient”, in “False Pronunciation”, in A Grammatical Corrector; or, A Vocabulary of the Common Errors of Speech[1], Philadelphia: E.
YouTube
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Published February 17, 2023
Wikipedia
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Pronunciation of Ancient Greek in teaching - Wikipedia
January 2, 2026 - That includes the differentiation between short and long vowels and between the various accents; the pronunciation of the spiritus asper as /h/ and the pronunciation of β, γ and δ as plosives and of diphthongs as such. However, there is often no mention of the ancient aspirate pronunciations of θ, φ and χ, which were different from the modern fricative values.
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