2007-08-11 02:09:19 · 11 answers · asked by charlie 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Actually it spoken like that by many dialects including Pennsylvania Dutch (or Pennsylvania Germans if you want to be specific). Now also the ORIGINAL Anglo-Saxon (Old English) word for asked was axode, infinitive acsian. I'm sure it was spelled different ways since it was recored by old monks and such.
So maybe you should ax yourself.....why don't you say it?
lol, Yes it was a consonat shift, but some cases might have preserved it, or reversed it.
And it's heavily a dialect thing, many people regardless of the colour of their skin say it either way.
2007-08-11 02:22:10 · answer #1 · answered by Timothy 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
This question must have been asked at least 5 times in the last month, don't you people read other people's questions?
2007-08-11 11:03:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It is like with all variations of dialects in all languages, a matter of your surroundings and what you get exposed to.
2007-08-11 12:33:42 · answer #3 · answered by m....n... 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am black and i say ask not akst . So obviously not all black people say it that way.Please don't draw conclusions about all black people by the few black people in your world.It just may be a local thing are they have a hard time pronouncing the work ask. Who knows why they do it that way.Why don't you walk up to the next black person you meet and ask them why the say akst instead of ask?
2007-08-11 09:27:08 · answer #4 · answered by Precious 5 · 2⤊ 6⤋
For the same reason as all the answers came up with a couple of weeks ago when exactly the same question was asked - it's just an "accent" thing ! ! !
2007-08-11 09:31:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
Lauren is white and that's how she pronounces it when she can be bovvered.
2007-08-11 09:18:28 · answer #6 · answered by Maggs 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
not racial .... many people pronounce it that way.
also bigger on the the east coast that out west.
2007-08-11 09:14:54 · answer #7 · answered by Michael M 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Why does it really matter?
The world over has different ways of saying things.
You are just another idiot , asking another stupid question.
Are you really so bored?
2007-08-11 10:14:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
The more education one has the better your english. My neighbors are school teachers and do not talk like that. But their "kin" who sells drugs talk like that. (AKST)
2007-08-11 09:47:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 5⤋
They pronounce is ARKS. it winds me up big time, why can't people speak properly!
2007-08-11 09:29:56 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 8⤋