Re: Aks

Of course it does.  It would be strange indeed for the vowel to change
due to metathesis.  It wouldn't just be metathesis anymore.

It was a silly question. I somehow forgot that "ask" and "ax" have
different vowels elsewhere, which makes no sense since "ask" is one of
the stereotypical go-to words for fake British accents.

So your "aks" sounds like our "ox", but not like your "ox" or "ax".
It is a phonetically distinct word.


On 10/27/07, T. A. McLeay <conlang@...> wrote:
> 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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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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