How has ask become arks

[onceamai]

AIBU to wonder why those younger than me no longer seem to say the word ask as it is written. How did it become "arks" and so easily adopted into the language?

duh it's AXE

you know dat, you is well right you know WowOoo. And i fink i would spell it arx innit

Why don't we just shoot whoever doesn't speak the Queens English and have done with the lazy correct grammar phobic scum

That would be a very good idea, spikeycow.

"patois only exists on a few Caribbean islands"
Depends what you mean. In the Caribbean, "patois" is generally used to mean French patois.
But each of the English-speaking islands also has its own variety of English which is sometimes also referred to as a patois.
Anyway, yes, "arks" is the usual Caribbean pronunciation of "ask."

I have to agree that mispronouncing (from the recognised norm) a word when it doesn't fit with the rest of the speech pattern is irritating but my pet hate is the misuse of 'of'. As in 'should of, would of, could of'. The bloody word you're looking for is 'HAVE'!!!!!!!!

i think it's 'i can't be arsed' as in backside

i've never heard 'i can't be arksed' and i lived in east london for 27 years

have heard 'arksed' in other contexts obviously

ooh..I disagree with ttalloo & spikeycow

I have a DD who speaks a combination of patois & annoying (to my ears) gobbledook, doesn't bother me (as long as I don't have to hear too much of it) as long as she stays fluent in Queen's English & understands when to use it.

I've even noticed that the Facebook gobbledegook has a kind of consistent grammar going on - it's surely code not laziness as it takes longer to type the phrases she uses.

Being bilingual is supposed to be good for your brain isn't it?

I do try & pick her up on using words with the wrong meaning, mind.

I've now checked 'mardy' in the OED. From 'marred' as in spoilt, apparently - so it's essentially.

Oh good.

There's a phrase I love - 'mithering wind' - it's just so beautifully suggestive. Just remembered that now.

I have lived in london north and south all my life and have never heard of "can't be arksed", agree it should be "arsed".
I have often heard "aksed" for "asked" especially from people with carribean accents and nowadays even the white kids in london seem to have developed a version of that accent.

but, Grendels- that's what I said earlier - and it's been put that it doesn't mean that at all - it's only opinion (am that i disagree with the OED!!!)

Oh, sorry, NickelBabe - I didn't read back to see what you'd said, and must have misremembered. I also deleted half my post, as you can see from the incomplete sentence! I meant to say that I checked the full OED as you'd said you'd checked the small OED, and that as you'd said, it's a bit of a guess.

okay, you're forgiven!

Argh! My huge peeve is ..
Hospickle

it's HOS - PI - TAL

hospital.

No excuse

Oh, like bockle and keckle (or a glo'ally pronounciated "bo'ul")!

my lickel sister used to say it like that when she thucked her fumb.

"But each of the English-speaking islands also has its own variety of English which is sometimes also referred to as a patois. "

This is not true. The only Caribbean islands that I know of that aren't french speaking that has it's own patois is Jamaica & St Lucia. That's not the rest of the Caribbean far from it in fact. What you're saying is that essentially Yorkshire as it's a regional dialect is patois which we all know isn't so...

The channel islands have patois - guernseais and jerseais are patois.

I have never, ever heard arks instead of ask.

Or pacific instead of specific.

Or bokkle for bottle.

Or any of the things complained about on here.

I suspect it's because 89% of all language previously spoken where I live has been replaced by the word 'like'. Other words are becoming redundant.

I've no problem with patois; in fact I rather like it. There is, however, no excuse for "everythink", "should of" and "less" when you mean "fewer". No excuse at all, and, come the revolution, they'll be first etc and so on...

YANBU. A girl in my office does this, and everytime I laugh and ask her to spell the word she just said! She knows she does it, its a habit for her.

Same with 'was' becoming 'wus'. I think you hear it more in London.

ps. I actually had a teacher who would say 'cant be arsked'

axed is worse. makes me want to kill.....aaagghhhh.