| From: | Ed Heil <edheil@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 13, 2000, 2:55 |
And it has a very old history -- "aks" as a variant of "ask" has been
in constant usage all the way back to Old English. The fact that in
the past few hundred years only one of them has received official
blessing from the Powers That Be is quite incidental.
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Nik Taylor wrote:
> "Daniel A. Wier" wrote:
> > In fact, I've heard the usage 'ax' for 'ask' once (maybe twice);
>
> Really? I hear it quite frequently around here (Florida).
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