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Old English spelling was not perfect in representing phonemes. It is more accurate to say there was a SH phoneme in Old English, written SC, as in scip. But there might also occur the cluster SK. The only way of writing this was also SC.
In cases of ambiguity the modern reflex is a good guide. Since we say ask not ash, the OE ascian was probably pronounced that way.
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