Re: Aks

On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:10:07 -0400, "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>
said:
> Judge Judy was probably correct, pragmatically even if not
> politically.  The legal profession does not look kindly on nonstandard
> speech.  When your goal is to get the judge and jury on your side, it
> helps to minimize the number of things they can use to file you as
> Other and thereby discount your argument.
>
> In any case, the metathetic pronunciation is IME an exact homophone of
> the word "ax(e)", whatever you label that vowel.  Is it the case that
> the two words do not rhyme in AusE?
"Axe" and metathesised "ask" do not rhyme in AusE, if metathesised "ask"
is used. The metathesised form uses the same vowel as "ask", which is
different from that of "axe".

--
Tristan.

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