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Re: Aks

From:R A Brown <ray@...>
Date:Saturday, October 27, 2007, 16:15
Philip Newton wrote:
> On 10/27/07, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote: > >>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/. -- Ray ================================== http://www.carolandray.plus.com ================================== Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitudinem.