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Re: Why can't niggers say "ask" ? etc

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From: Stefan Wolfe
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2007 02:31
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"Lars Eighner" <usenet@larseighner.com> wrote in message 
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> This is all lame racist bullshit.  "Ax" is the way the word was pronounced
> and often spelled in Chaucer's day.

Aw, come on, give me a break! Blacks speak middle English because they are 
so read of on Chaucer? Ha ha ha :-))

 It is still the way the word is
> pronounced in many English dialects used by actual lily-white English 
> people
> in England.

Lily white? Who is the "racist" now?

Until the 19th century, it was the way the word was pronounced
> by most people in America who spoke English. Early in the 19th century, 
> the
> "ask" pronunciation began to gain ground in New England, but "ax" was the
> standard American pronunciation in most of America through most of the 
> 19th
> century.

hahahahahahaha 
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