This is extremely embarrassing (We deserve a free lunch)
I speak better English than those Negroes and I'm French Canadian. I never "aks" a question. I either ask or pose one. This gives a whole new meaning to the word: "Loser"
Pronouncing ask as "ax" or "aks" isn't a black thing, it's a southern US thing.
How do I know? Lee Harvey Oswald told me. If you listen to what he said when he was in custody, you will clearly hear him say "ax," or "aks."
Several years ago, somebody on the radio was blabbering about "ax," and I called in and told him about Oswald, and, later, a woman called in and confirmed it: she told him that she was from the south - New Orleans, maybe - and she said that she and other white people pronounced it "ax."
It probably a situation where the white people changed their pronunciation, and the black people didn't.
Many years ago, I think it was very posh in England to not pronounce "H," but, not, you will probably find that only the lower classes say 'enry, instead of Henry. Ask Queen Elizabeth if it is 'enry the Eighth, or Henry the Eighth.
*laughs seriously* You are using one person to "prove" something about Southerners, when that is NOT-AL-ALL TRUE about White Southerners, PERIOD. Blacks, EVERYWHERE, however, PROVABLY, EN-MASSE, are, in-general, not able to pronounce certain words very well, at all, DESPITE BEING AMERICANS, BEING BORN IN THIS NATION, GROWING-UP IN THIS NATION, "EDUCATED" IN THIS NATION, AND EXISTING ALL-OF-THEIR-LIVES, IN THIS NATION.
I am offended, frankly, that you would characterize Southerners, of which I consider myself, and am VERY PROUD TO BE, as being equivalent to extremely low-IQ Blacks, and this is NOT, NOT, NOT!!! true, as it is an extremely noticeable problem isolated to Southern Blacks, and it is a FACT that Blacks, OF-ALL-STRATA-IN-SOCIETY, have this language-problem.
"Sheidlower says you can trace "ax" back to the eighth century. The pronunciation derives from the Old English verb "acsian." Chaucer used "ax." It's in the first complete English translation of the Bible (the Coverdale Bible): " 'Axe and it shall be given.'"
Pronouncing ask as "ax" or "aks" isn't a black thing, it's a southern US thing.
ReplyDeleteHow do I know? Lee Harvey Oswald told me. If you listen to what he said when he was in custody, you will clearly hear him say "ax," or "aks."
Several years ago, somebody on the radio was blabbering about "ax," and I called in and told him about Oswald, and, later, a woman called in and confirmed it: she told him that she was from the south - New Orleans, maybe - and she said that she and other white people pronounced it "ax."
It probably a situation where the white people changed their pronunciation, and the black people didn't.
Many years ago, I think it was very posh in England to not pronounce "H," but, not, you will probably find that only the lower classes say 'enry, instead of Henry. Ask Queen Elizabeth if it is 'enry the Eighth, or Henry the Eighth.
Man, you don't know what-you-are-talking-about...
ReplyDeleteInteresting. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteI still think that they are embarrassing themselves with that little "demonstration".
Hear Oswald say "axed me that question" at 00:56 in this jewtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY8fRTLtgzA
ReplyDeleteI heard it clearly.
ReplyDelete*laughs seriously* You are using one person to "prove" something about Southerners, when that is NOT-AL-ALL TRUE about White Southerners, PERIOD. Blacks, EVERYWHERE, however, PROVABLY, EN-MASSE, are, in-general, not able to pronounce certain words very well, at all, DESPITE BEING AMERICANS, BEING BORN IN THIS NATION, GROWING-UP IN THIS NATION, "EDUCATED" IN THIS NATION, AND EXISTING ALL-OF-THEIR-LIVES, IN THIS NATION.
ReplyDeleteI am offended, frankly, that you would characterize Southerners, of which I consider myself, and am VERY PROUD TO BE, as being equivalent to extremely low-IQ Blacks, and this is NOT, NOT, NOT!!! true, as it is an extremely noticeable problem isolated to Southern Blacks, and it is a FACT that Blacks, OF-ALL-STRATA-IN-SOCIETY, have this language-problem.
That is that.
Zapper, none-of-what-I-wrote, above, is directed to you, but to the original poster.
ReplyDeleteIncorrect. It's an auld English thing....
ReplyDelete"Sheidlower says you can trace "ax" back to the eighth century. The pronunciation derives from the Old English verb "acsian." Chaucer used "ax." It's in the first complete English translation of the Bible (the Coverdale Bible): " 'Axe and it shall be given.'"
Yeah. I'll rent to you idiots. As soon as you figure out how to flush. That's never.
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