Definitions
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- verb US, dialect to
ask
Etymologies
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Examples
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Examples are frequent throughout the history of English, e.g. ask from aksian, and commonly pronounced as 'aks' in many dialects today.
On prosiopesis DC 2009
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The episode of "Everybody Loves Raymond" where the title character worries about saying "aks" for "ask" during a TV interview is a perfect example.
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Actually the episode went beyond this and condemned "aks" as generally wrong, falling into the same trap as your example.
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What a sad, small, sorry life "bronco beer" aks "mahatma gandhi" must live.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 1free1 2010
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What a sad, small, sorry life "bronco beer" aks "mahatma gandhi" must live.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 1free1 2010
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What a sad, small, sorry life "bronco beer" aks "mahatma gandhi" must live.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local NWBroncoFan 2010
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What a sad, small, sorry life "bronco beer" aks "mahatma gandhi" must live.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local NWBroncoFan 2010
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What a sad, small, sorry life "bronco beer" aks "mahatma gandhi" must live.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 1free1 2010
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I don't know the origin of this, but I know and work with many Black people who speak the same way; 'aks' where the word 'ask' is concerned.
Latest Articles youtube 2010
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I don't know the origin of this, but I know and work with many Black people who speak the same way; 'aks' where the word 'ask' is concerned.
Latest Articles youtube 2010
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