Re: AX
| From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 13, 2000, 14:15 |
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On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Raymond Brown wrote:
>'ax' (= ask) has been continuously used in Brit English dialects ever since
>the Saxons, angles and others brought their Germanic dialects to this
>island.
Oughtn't that be Saskons? :)
>He also quotes this from a writer called Hunter:
>"Nothing can be more capricious than custom has shown herself in the union
>of the s and c - _ax_ must become ask, and _dex_, which occurs in Chaucer,
>desk. But lask is become _lax_; both forms, _task_ and _tax_, are, in
>another instance, admitted to be in good usage, though their senses have
>divaricated."
>
I think I may have heard dex a time or two, come to think of it.
Padraic.
>Ray.