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Ax or Ask?


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Ax or Ask?

 

This is my biggest pet peve. :mad:

 

 

Actually it was very common in England to pronounce it that way. It is thought that the British spread the pronounciation to the caribbean, where it was gradually brought into US culture. It's a pretty old (and common) variant.

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