Re: Aks

I've only ever heard <aks> in Britain in Lancashire dialect where it has a
short vowel, as in American English, though the vowel is [a] rather than
[{].

Dan



-----Original Message-----
From: Mark J. Reed
Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2007 3:43 PM
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.