👉 Haunching is a term used in the field of linguistics and phonetics to describe the process by which vowels are pronounced differently based on their position within a word or phrase. It refers to the way that certain consonants, such as "a" or "e", tend to be pronounced slightly different from others in a particular word, while other consonants, such as "i" and "u", tend to be more pronounced. For example, the word "butterfly" has