Does it make you crazy when people axe a question??

LOL I dont have to observe and get back to you. LOL I know they do. I live in an area that uses "hillbilly slang" I try hard to always correct myself when I find myself saying these words. It is so easy to pick up on language when you are around it on a regular basis. LOL

I am in the public alot and hear the same thing. There are also other words that people mispronounce that drive me crazy. Like breakfast....breafus.....that's how it sounds sometime. Or Naked...they forget the "K".....!

I work with lots of kids with learning disabilities. Reading is challenging for many of them, and they do have a hard time putting on those final consonants. After awhile, though, it is just laziness. It is just too bad that we cannot do to those adults that "axe" questions, what I get to do with those kids. That is, I get to correct them, then make them go back and do it all again. People repeat what they hear at home. I guess they learn it some other places, as well. When I took Latin, years ago, I was told that people who speak English are very lazy with their speech, and that is why it is so difficult for others to learn.

Allow me to ax you a question. Are you aware of what group of people says this? Well, I am. I hear it at work all the time. One individual said, "I've been sayun 'ax' from the very beginnin' of speech. I caint hep it." I said, "My mother said-as I was growing up-and still says WORSH for wash. When I was in First Grade I matched the letters to the sound I was hearing and it didn't match. It's WASH. Therefore, I don't say 'worsh' EVER. People who speak in the slang of their environment are lazy speakers and I'd prefer not to discuss anything with them. They sound ignorant. If that's what they want to sound like, then let them be who they are. Deb-good post by the way.

I know my lot frowns on one word answers but all I can say to your post is a big AMEN!

Oh, my goodness, yes! The lazy American tongue! Part of the problem is that we don't read enough and another part of the problem is that we don't bother to study other languages. Reading exposes you to familiar and expanded vocabularies and studying languages helps you to understand the development of language and grammar. We, Americans, are even inhibited in our appreciation of music, which could inspire an awareness of the rhythm and meter of language. If you see a word spelled correctly, and you understand the music of phonics, correct pronounciation is a simple matter. Read, America! It's like fingernails on a chalkboard when people dangle participles ("where's the store at?") or say 'breffus' instead of 'breakfast' or when they use the non- word 'irregardless'. What is that supposed to mean, anyway? 'Not-not-regard-not'? It's NOT a real word, people! There is a phrase that people use incorrectly all the time that creeps me out-"I want to have my cake and eat it, too." So, what's difficult about that? Go ahead, have your cake and eat it. If you were trying to imply irony or difficulty the phrase should be "Eat my cake and have it, too." I want to EAT my cake and still have it. Errgh.

O!M!G!!! that drives me NUTS!!! and ya knwo I have to tell you it is more common here in the U.S..it used to drive me batty when I was still living in Canada and I'd here it on talk shows or whatever but then I moved here to N.Y and WOW....LOL I dont know how many times I've gone off on a rant over that! LOL

You know the word Ain't is in the dictionary now don't you. That would be the signal that our country has lessened the value of speaking well. English is being threatened also. I would hope we could encourage others to speak in a better and more civilized manner. Good luck in your observations in the future.

I had a good laugh at some of the responses on here with this one :) I too have noticed this trend and it rubs my nerves the wrong way, far worse then nails on a chalk board. I have this problem also with things like warsh, instead of wash, and one my mother loves to do supbenie instead of subpoena. I just cringe when I hear things like. I know I'm not perfect but I try to get the words right. One of my other pet peeves is the word Celts, if you are talking about the basketball team it's an S sound like Selts but if you are talking about the nationality its with a hard c like Kelts.

Oh yes! There are also many other improper enunciations that irritate me too! Also, in my area of the country, the improper conjugation of verbs (not by foreigners who are native English speakers either!) For instance, almost everyone here, if they are going to assist a person with taking a bath, say, "I'm going to BATH her." The correct statement is, "I am going to BATHE her." This makes my skin crawl!!! They also say, "I knowed" instead of "I knew", "I seed" instead of "I saw".....so many things like that. Hubby, my children and I just cringe.

When someone throws an axe at me, I dodge. *giggles* Seriously, I have been known to ignore people who talk like this. If you made it out of elementary school and are a native English speaker, you should be able to say "ask". Come to think of it, if you can't say "ask", you probably shouldn't have made it past first grade or so. I can allow some amount of bad grammar, and I'm even guilty of it myself. However, this amount of messing up the language just to do so i just annoying.

This is something that has bothered me for years, I have actually not noticed it here on the internet but when I watch T.V. especially talk shows people say this all the time.I think it is part of the hip hop culture but I find it very annoying. An axe is something you use to chop up wood not for a question. PEOPLE THE WORD IS ASK!!!!!!!!! Thank you for the dissuasion . this is one of my pet peeves also.

I laughed until I thought I would pee my pants! I have noticed it most of my life. Not that I say it, but I know a lot of people who do. How funny.

LOL...I'm from the South and that's all I hear. It makes me want to scream.

i have heard people pronouncing ask as axe. but i just laugh at it. i guess they are doing it intentionally in a manner of joking about it. but i do admit that sometimes, it annoys me, too. but people has their own styles and that it's hard to tell them not to joke about everything especially when it comes to pronunciation.

Believe me you are NOT the only one who notices it, we all do and we are all going crazy! my mother especially! She use to be an english teacher many years ago, (she is 74 now), and she goes NUTS when ever she hears people say things like: AX and BABY DADDY and HAD WENT, not to mention many others that it seems EVERYBODY is saying! We don't call that: going with the flow, or cool, or new age language, we call that for what it is, ( THE DUMBING DOWN OF AMERICA ), and other countries are laughing at us behind our backs! My family came from Cornwall, England and as you probably know, the British speak so properly.

Yes it drives me nuts. A friend always used to say can I axe you something and I kept saying no but you can ask, I got so fed up with it one day that I said, no you can't axe me, it would hurt and make a mess on the carpet, but you can ask. She got the message after that.

It drives me CRAZY! Let me ax you something- I also freak over brefest instead of breaKfast- I usually am able to keep it to myself- but I just wonder didn't these people learn English? I know my English and grammar is not perfect-- but all they have to do is pronounce the word. I hear it alot and it drives me crazy.

Oh, my word! I'm not the only who hates that and hears it often? I lived in a place for 12 years, and that place had a certain population of people who almost always said 'axe' instead of 'ask.' It doesn't have to be a race that does it, because I've heard white people do it too. I wonder if it is being uneducated, or just hard for them to pronounce? Maybe a speed imepediment devoted to that one word?

Yes, there's people who have speech difficulties but stuff like this does not fall under that. I agree that it's just plain laziness. There's different colloquialisms in different parts of the country of course, but "axe" for "ask" is just plain bad grammar. "Axe" is an entirely different word, anyway - it's a noun, not a verb. This bugs me as much as people "saying "sangwich" for "sandwich." It's sand-wich even if you have speech problems... there's no g. I tend to notice this stuff too, can you tell? ;)