Re: Aks

On 10/27/07, Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> wrote:
> On 10/27/07, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:
> > So your "aks" .. 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.
Ah, right.  Non-rhoticity rears its ugly head. :)

So over here we ax for stuff, while over there you arks for stuff.
Though in your eye-dialectical written forms I suppose it's usually
written "aks" without the r?  Over here it's "ax" or "axe"; "aks"
looks like a typo.

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>