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Making Sense of "Bad English": An Introduction to Language Attitudes and Ideologies (Open Access)
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A much-discussed feature of African American English is the pronunciation of the word ask as “aks,” as in “I’ll go aks the teacher.” Are criticisms of this form, which has been in variation throughout the history of English (in the Middle
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