I've worked in banks in London
where supposed professionals used 'aks' in their daily dealings with folks. No one ever corrected them for fear of being called racist, I presume. Very odd.

rafter
baz
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 11:22, 1 reply)

People don't correct people, not because of race
but because you'd look like a fucking prick.

People all across the country speak with different accents, pronunciations, slang, and colloquialisms.

Deal with it, you boring pedants.
(The Kwyjibo A big, dumb, balding North American ape., Wed 21 Jul 2010, 12:35, closed)

Imma agree with this
hard.
( wotofco pissing in your swimming pool, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 12:42, closed)

imma not.
it was neither accent, pronunciation, slang nor colloquialism. It was affectation. Unnecessary, futile and intentional in its' aim.
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 16:10, closed)

It's actually something that is very common in the Caribbean
and, judging by your fear of racism, the professional was black, it would not be uncommon to think that they grew up in a family surrounded by older Caribbean people, who spoke like that. Making it perfectly normal for them to say that.

After all, everyone knows what is meant by it.
(The Kwyjibo A big, dumb, balding North American ape., Wed 21 Jul 2010, 16:47, closed)

and in Dublin,
my Grandfather would call that a load of bollox but he certainly wouldn't do so in the office even though, everyone knows that it is.
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 18:18, closed)