• @phlegmy@sh.itjust.works
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    74 months ago

    Is that really something that came from the black community though? It was around before North America was colonised.

    • tiredofsametab
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      64 months ago

      Modern dialectal ax is as old as Old English acsian and was an accepted literary variant until c. 1600.

      https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=ask

      So older, yes, but also possibly a separate phenomenon unless certain people happened to still use that variant when enslaving people.

    • @x00z@lemmy.world
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      14 months ago

      Not sure. It might not have originated from the black community but it definitely is being used more and more within it.