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<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...
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This has happened the other way around; the OE acsian has degenerated to the MnE ask.
This "incorrect" pronunciation has become the standard and the dialectal ax is considered incorrect.
degenerated
No it hasn't, it's changed.
In any case, both ascian and acsian occurred in OE.
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I saw these words in Information, and am guessing that they are the roots of the now more common extinguished and disgruntled. My question is ths: Is it "ingenuous" to use such words, given that they are basically dead?Surely the question should be whether it is genuous? 
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If I enjoy the freedom that language brings to me, why would I deny the 6th grader, who knows very well that it is "incorrect" pronunciation, the wonderful feeling ...
So if said 6th grader needs to compose a report on nucular physics, do you suggest that they aks the libarian for assistance? 
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"pixture" for picture and long A when someone is reading text outloud for the article a. Shudder is right! And cringe too! And maybe roll my eyes a bit towards the ceiling!
"Adversity is the whetstone of creativity"
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Onie if dey aks me nicely like.... I've never heard anyone ('cept third parties) slip on "nucular libarians". (of course if they leave thier peels on the floor... ) Actually, I make it "a point up to a point" (I think there is a thread for that), sooner or later they correct themselves when they realize I am ignoring them because of "that"  . ps. Have you ever had to teach (not English) when my first sentence here is the standard speech pattern ALL DAY LONG!!! pps. I was wrong to suggest that they had any feelings...
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