*ahem*'The true representative of the orig. áscian was the s.w. and w.midl. ash, esh, also written esse (cf. æsce ASH, wæsc(e)an WASH), now quite lost. Acsian, axian, survived in ax, down to nearly 1600 the regular literary form, and still used everywhere in midl. and south. dialects, though supplanted in standard English by ask, originally the northern form.'
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Wed 4 Aug 2004, 13:42,
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Are you aksing for a fight?
Bohica Anne Frank's Bukkaki Tentacle Storm,
Wed 4 Aug 2004, 13:44,
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I don't care what that fucking says (or do I understand it)The word is "ask"
I'm really sure that the fools who speak in this fashion know all about the history of English usage.
No, they're just dumb un-educated fucks
(I'm really sure that the fools who speak in this fashion know all about the history of English usage.
No, they're just dumb un-educated fucks
Hankster,
Wed 4 Aug 2004, 13:44,
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yay for the northwe speak betterer than youse southies
and we use all the vowels
(and we use all the vowels
Vultan the real one I threw my little yellow shoe,
Wed 4 Aug 2004, 14:19,
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