| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, August 28, 2005, 1:28 |
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 20:29:48 -0400, caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...> wrote:> The pronunciation by some Black Americans of "ask" as "aks" would be, > I think, an example of this.That's actually a rural English feature dating back at least as far as Chaucer, though always recognised as nonstandard. Others here know the exact details better than I. Paul
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