EXPLANATION OF ENDING: ‘Asked’ is so often pronounced exactly like ‘assed’/‘arsed’ that the YouTube automatic captioner can't tell them apart: it sometimes writes ‘asked’ when the speaker intended ‘assed’ or ‘arsed’! I thought everyone would get this... sigh...
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An exploration of the form 'aks' in various dialects, through history in and across the world.
0:00 Introduction
0:44 'Aks' in Old English
1:30 'Aks' in Middle English
1:57 'Aks' in the Bible
2:44 'Aks' in the Shetland Islands
3:44 'Aks' in Jamaica & MLE
5:28 'Aks' in the USA & AAVE
6:10 Stereotyping & prejudice
7:50 'Ask' pronounced as 'ass' & 'arse'!
More on Shaetlan:
https://www.iheardee.com/
https://www.facebook.com/iheardee/
Beowulf from this excellent article:
http://staefcraeft.blogspot.com/2009/10/beowulf-axes-questions.html
The Knight's Tale in Middle English by Ancient Literature Dude
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn4RDpNyBsE
The Miller's Tale in Middle English by the Philological Bell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKXbseB2Xi0
Up-Helly-Aa photos by Mike Pennington
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/The_Jarl%27s_squad_in_the_procession_at_Uyeasound_Up_Helly_Aa_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3848195.jpg
Jamaican New Testament
https://soundcloud.com/biblesociety/b01-07-matthew-n2jambsw?in=biblesociety/sets/jamaican-audio-new-testament
Stormzy photo by Raph_PH
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
Scots language map by SkateTier
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scots_speakers_in_the_2011_census.png
Peter Serafinowicz sketch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysshlzqDvvU
God's Outlaw: the Story of William Tyndale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKXbseB2Xi0
