18-09-2017, 02:36 PM
(This post was last modified: 18-09-2017, 02:55 PM by David Andrews.)
Bill Fite Wrote:[quote=Dawn Meredith][quote=Anthony Thorne]
Minor quibble: Brown repeats several times LHO's quote that 'Nobody axed me that question' implying that saying axed instead of asked is a sign of low intelligence, but I have heard a few people from Louisiana use that pronunciation.
A significance of Oswald using "axed" (or "aksed") for "asked" while under stress may be that "aksed" is a form learned in an American childhood, and consciously corrected in adult speech. Does a seeming reversion under stress indicate that the DPD Oswald is an American? Or one of those clever imposters you read about?
(An aside: "aksed" for "asked" is an very old English form, constantly in use by people concerned with things other than sounding noble and correct. See link below. I used to look down on people who didn't pronounce the L in vulnerable, until I heard dozens of speakers on British television do it, as late as yesterday.)
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news...180949663/