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Why do so many people pronounce "ask" as "aks" and am I the only one this irritates? http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070905215517AAMcyDZ *QOUTE* Actually "aks" comes from middle English and "ask" is modern English. Consider that the majority of slave plantations were owned by Americans with British roots and that explains it. "aks" was still widely used in England during the European/American slave trade period. It is called a...

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