masukomi, Was pondering AAVE's "ax" instead of "ask" & how much it annoys ignorant white folk who don't get that AAVE is a full-on dialect not lazy speech. I think maybe it's so annoying because it's not just a word transposition or weird conjugation but a sound transposition of a common word.
TIL that's called a "metathesis" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metathesis_(linguistics) & until the ~1600s English had a word for asking with the "ks" sound.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/ask
The more I learn about AAVE the more I love it.
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