This is pretty great and pretty telling of the nature of the phony investigation...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fgK8laWlak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fgK8laWlak
The original pronunciation was "aks" --- as you will find in the works of Geoffrey Chaucer. An example of the process known as "metathesis".Anyone here that doofus at the hearing saying "ax you a question" rather than "ask you a question"? Did it SEVERAL times!!! What a buffoon.
The original pronunciation was "aks" --- as you will find in the works of Geoffrey Chaucer. An example of the process known as "metathesis".
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It is often the case that people are considered as making illiterate grammar mistakes, when, in fact, they are preserving a more original grammatical form which has been erased by people who were helping to destroy the standard language of the time.The original pronunciation was "aks" --- as you will find in the works of Geoffrey Chaucer. An example of the process known as "metathesis".
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It is often the case that people are considered as making illiterate grammar mistakes, when, in fact, they are preserving a more original grammatical form which has been erased by people who were helping to destroy the standard language of the time.
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