'Ask' or 'Arks'
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebonics
It's cool to be a failure and give off an image you didn't pay attention at school.
It's cool to be a failure and give off an image you didn't pay attention at school.
Pferdestarke said:
Why do some folk insist on saying 'arks' or 'axe' instead of 'ask'?
It boils my piss!
Apparently it's a different dialect from that which you and I speak. More detail here:It boils my piss!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American_Vern...
wikipedia said:
(examples include) Use of metathesised forms like aks for "ask"[35] or graps for "grasp".
Edited by mrmr96 on Sunday 2nd January 01:46
tank slapper said:
Not this again.
Chaucer said:
"I axe, why the fyfte man Was nought housband to the Samaritan?"
It's nothing to do with 'street' or whatever, it's a result of a different dialect and dates back to the use of Old English.mrmr96 said:
Pferdestarke said:
Why do some folk insist on saying 'arks' or 'axe' instead of 'ask'?
It boils my piss!
Apparently it's a different dialect from that which you and I speak. More detail here:It boils my piss!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American_Vern...
wikipedia said:
(examples include) Use of metathesised forms like aks for "ask"[35] or graps for "grasp".
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