Baffroom...
Baffroom.
shareThe way Dion said that cracked me up. He's getting a good education, so it was an unexpected mispronouncation. There was something kind of cute and endearing about it, though. Like when someone you like still pronounces a word the way they did in childhood, "Valentime's Day", "Passghetti"...
Funny, he was annoyed by the childish behavior of the other guys when they locked Rooster in the "baffroom," but was pretty tickled when he left his stanky dookie in the pod's day-baffroom/druggies' bedroom. Totally different situations and circumstances, I know, but still, being stuck in a room with someone else's poo, is still being stuck in a room with someone else's poo.
Educated people still use "I need to axs you something." That annoys the hell out of me.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog
"Ax" is actually a proper and correct alternate pronunciation of "ask". I used to be bothered by it, but after researching it, I've made peace with it:
Jesse Sheidlower, the president of the American Dialect Society, says "ax" has been used for a thousand years. "It is not a new thing; it is not a mistake," he says. "It is a regular feature of English."
Sheidlower says you can trace "ax" back to the eighth century. The pronunciation derives from the Old English verb "acsian." Chaucer used "ax." It's in the first complete English translation of the Bible (the Coverdale Bible): " 'Axe and it shall be given.'
"So at that point it wasn't a mark of people who weren't highly educated or people who were in the working class," Stanford University linguist John Rickford says. He says it's hard to pinpoint why "ax" stopped being popular but stayed put in the American South and the Caribbean, where he's originally from. But "over time it became a marker of identity," he says.
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