<A pox on the heads of all the rappers and ebonics pushers who have brought aks / ax (instead of ASK) into mainstream vocabulary. I get seriously annoyed when I hear this. It grates on my nerves – worse that nails on chalkboard. >

A few years ago I thought it would be fun to introduce a scholarly paper on "The Rise in Usage of the Glottal Stop Due to Rap and Hip Hop Music". Like "hi'in" and "qui'in" for hitting and quitting (how do you represent a glottal stop, anyway?). Not being the scholarly paper type, it was just an amusing pipe dream...