Re: Aks
| From: | R A Brown <ray@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, October 27, 2007, 16:15 |
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Philip Newton wrote:
> On 10/27/07, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:
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>>So your "aks" sounds like our "ox", but not like your "ox" or "ax".
>>It is a phonetically distinct word.
>
> I can imagine it would sound like "arks" in south UK. I'm not sure
> about Australia, though, but could imagine the two would sound alike,
> too.
My understanding is that where 'ax' (=ask from Old English _acsian_)
survived in Brit English dialects, at least till the 19th cent, this was
not so. That in southern dialects it was /&ks/.
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