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Article #1645Re: Why can't niggers say "ask" ? etc
From: Xeno Chauvin
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:55
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:55
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"Lars Eighner" <usenet@larseighner.com> wrote in message news:slrnes75gq.ss.usenet@goodwill.larseighner.com... > This is all lame racist bullshit. "Ax" is the way the word was pronounced > and often spelled in Chaucer's day. It is still the way the word is > pronounced in many English dialects used by actual lily-white English > people > in England. 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. "The variant in modern dialect ax is as old as O.E. acsian and was an accepted literary variant until c.1600. " Some folks just stay in the past. Xeno
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