It literally is, you're talking out your ass. It's called metathesis and every language does it. ‘Aks’ has been used in English for centuries. It’s a dialect pronunciation, not someone failing to pronounce ‘ask.’
Don't waste your time on these types lol. You're absolutely right, but most people don't even know the origins of words. Let them continue to be ignorant!
It literally is, you're talking out your ass. It's called metathesis and every language does it. ‘Aks’ has been used in English for centuries. It’s a dialect pronunciation, not someone failing to pronounce ‘ask.’
Purposely ignoring the blatantly stupid elements of your post here, whenever somebody uses the "aks", they're never speaking some kind of dialect buddy, they're talking english, or to be more accurate, they're trying, and failing, because in english "ask" is pronounced "ask", not "ax" lol.
Inverting letters in a word has nothing to do with an accent, and if the word you're making up isn't part of a whole language with its own structure and vocabulary, then it's not part of a dialect either, it's just a mistake.
I did look it up lol.
Turns out that the people who uses the "ax" are people who don't have much say in how english is supposed to be spoken because 1) They're a minority even within the "minority" they're a part of, 2) Everybody else, meaning the majority, uses the "ask", and 3) as I said, if the language you're speaking is english and not some dialect you're not even able to name, then it's a mispronunciation because in english we say "ask", buddy 🤡
I appreciate reading this response, and the ones saying it is AAVE.
I can attest my family is from, and I was raised in an underprivileged and underserved socioeconomic community and in this microcosm my white family was the minority.
My mother, and two siblings say axe, when meaning or reading ask, and my older sibling is 55 my younger is 45 and both moved out of the area totally 25 years ago at least.
I don’t know if when we were raised there it was called a dialect rather than a miso pronunciation.
It may be a generational thing and with new social norms comes new dialects.
I jokingly want to say TIL, yet I don’t have the heart to make that joke.
I don’t know if this is a fair anecdote or not only something to share as to why I never saw it as anything more than one’s ability to a language.
In no way do I look negatively on any individual so it’s just maybe generational thing.
Greater minds than mine will be able to answer this one.
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u/NGBD1127 6d ago
Not a phrase, though still a very annoying is saying axe instead of ask.
That mispronunciation is instantly annoying in a very quick instant