why do some people say "axe" when i think they mean to say "ask"?

[joesmoke]

there was a gentleman at my fathers workplace who liked "naynays" on his sandwiches and drank wine from "gobblers"

 

[nick1985]

they be black, yo

 

[fulltilt39]

cause dey black

Fixed.

Do I have to do everything around here?? <sigh>

 

[dawks]

I fin to axe u a question, u know what im sayn?

 

[JulesMaximus]

why do some people say "axe" when i think they mean to say "ask"?

Same reason people say "I seen" instead of "I saw"...they're idiots.

 

[lokiju]

That shit drives me nuts.

People at work will say it all the time like that when they pronounce every other word perfectly.

u work at McD's?

How'd you know?😕

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Don't be hattin Yo

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

How'd you know?😕

because the other guy said they're also the ones that axe me if i want fries with that.

 

[FelixDeCat]

Don't be hattin Yo

Who is Yo? And how do you hat him?

 

[classy]

I don't know why I say that

 

[Adrenaline]

do they have a speech impediment?

if i ask them to say "mask", will they say "max"?

You reminded me of an incident in high school. I was asked by my Pre Cal teacher to help out with a class and teach it.

So at one point the teacher interrupts me and says:

Let me axe you a quorstion. (yes, say question how I spelled it)

My reply:

You can ask me a question but not axe me a question.

The class was stunned and I was told to have a seat and she would take over from there. My two friends I sat next to died laughing after class.

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

You reminded me of an incident in high school. I was asked by my Pre Cal teacher to help out with a class and teach it.

So at one point the teacher interrupts me and says:

Let me axe you a quorstion. (yes, say question how I spelled it)

My reply:

You can ask me a question but not axe me a question.

The class was stunned and I was told to have a seat and she would take over from there. My two friends I sat next to died laughing after class.

so your HS hires calc teachers that are also fluent in ebonics?

 

[soulcougher73]

it's bofe

rofl

 

[Adrenaline]

so your HS hires calc teachers that are also fluent in ebonics?

I guess you could say something like that. She was great with math but OMG trying to decipher what was being said sometimes.......

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

It's an enunciation thing. When I first joined speech & debate (forensics), I thought my pronunciation was spot on but i got comments saying enunciate. You really have to try and it will work. Otherwise people frequently slur phrases together. That's why you get axe and not ask.

 

[QueBert]

Axe for ask isn't anywhere as bad as the way fuckers from Boston fuck up words. Axe at least sounds like Ask, where Pee-zer doesn't sound shit like Pizza.

Ebonics > peoples from Boston dialect.

 

[p2daall]

its not axe. It is aks. Please correct yoself foo.

 

[shortylickens]

Wat choo takkin bout meng?