Re: Metathesis?
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, August 28, 2005, 6:36 |
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Paul Bennett wrote:
> That's actually a rural English feature dating back at least as far as
> Chaucer, though always recognised as nonstandard. Others here know the
> exact details better than I.
It was actually the older form. Historically, _ask_ is a metathesis of
_aks_ ... which in turn was a metathesis of Old English _ascian_ (which
in that form evolved into the obsolete MidEng for _asshe_). So, in short,
ascian -> acsian -> aks -> ask
-> asshe -> (obsolete)