re: Why do some people say axe’ instead of ask when speaking?

I tend to go the other way.

I grew up here, both my parents have southern accents. I somehow don’t have one. I didn’t try to not have one. I just try to speak phonetically.

For a lot of my youth reading was the only way I realized that my parents weren’t enunciating their words correctly. I’d hear them say something, realize I read the word in a book and that they weren’t saying it correctly, wonder why they weren’t, and then choose to say it correctly.

I guess I don’t understand knowing that a word is pronounced a certain way and then choosing to say it another way.

Take your KDS elsewhere, please.

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Hawgnsincebirth55

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Why would someone say hawg and not hog?

“some people”

I’ve always been impressed with skreet vs street and credick vs credit. I mean those don’t even sound close to me but people seem to accept and understand them as interchangeable in many areas.

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This type of shitty thread is the reason the OT is in decline.

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gm Clean

Is it really in terminal decline, or is it just a pigment of our imagination?

They all axe for you - the monkeys axe, the tigers axe and the elephants axe me too.

it goes back to Chaucer, I believe he used "ax" instead of ask to denote lower class people.

jurry instead of jewelry

This post disserves a astuhreek fur gettin up in udder peeples biseenuhs and trying to kashay brownie pernts with ahleets by axeing this heenius question.