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LinguisticsFrom: Kaycnm@aol.comWed Jun 25 08:43:44 2008
Horrified as I am, I can't resist asking, why logical? Steve Raymond [_edit_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Phonological_history_of_English_consonant_clusters&actioníit§ion) ] S-cluster metathesis S-cluster metathesis is the nonstandard _metathesis_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metathesis_(linguistics)) of final consonant clusters starting with /s/ occurring in _African American Vernacular English_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American_Vernacular_English) . _[13]_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological_history_of_English_consonant_clusters#cite_note-12) For AAVE speakers with S-cluster metathesis the following words can undergo the following changes: ask → /æks/ grasp → /græps/ wasp → /wÉ‘Ëps/ gasp → /gæps/ S-cluster metathesis is lexically determined. The above pronunciations in fact have a long history, and all the metathesised forms have existed in English for around as long as the words themselves, with varying degrees of acceptance. For example, the Old English verb áscian also appeared as acsian, and both forms continued into Middle English. The two forms co-existed and evolved separately in various regions of England, and later America. The variant ascian gives us the modern standard English ask, but the form "axe", probably derived from Old English acsian, appears in Chaucer: "I axe, why the fyfte man Was nought housband to the Samaritan?" (Wife of Bath's Prologue, 1386.) It was considered acceptable in literary English until about 1600 _[14]_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological_history_of_English_consonant_clusters#cite_note-13 ) and can still be found in some dialects of English including _African American Vernacular English_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American_Vernacular_English) . It is, however, one of the most stigmatized features of AAVE, often commented on by teachers. It also persists in _Ulster Scots_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster_Scots_language) as /aks/ and _Jamaican English_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaican_English_language) as /aËks/, from where it has entered the _London_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London) dialect of _British English_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_English_language) as /É‘Ëks/. So, Joe, I guess it is axe. Kay Johnson, CNM Duluth, GA ************************************************ "Life is too important to be taken seriously." Oscar Wilde
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