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From: deb5@midway.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: /aks/ for ask
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In article <5prm1o$sah@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu>,
Jonathan M Newman <joaquin@grove.ufl.edu> wrote:
>The /aks/ pronunciation I've heard mostly from people from the boroughs of
>Brooklyn and Queens in New York City, and from their Long Island
>inhabiting descendents. I always assumed that the form of Black English
>using /aks/ gets it from there, because I've heard southern Black English
>use /as/, the 's' unvoiced.
[snip]

You're assuming that Blacks on the South Side of Chicago have /%ks/ in
their speech because they're imitating people from *Queens*?  What do you
think the media of transmission are?  Rap songs?
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