Asks

[bagzi94]

How to pronounce asks?

[5jj]

/ɑ:sks/

It's not particularly easy to pronounce, and the /k/ may be quite lightly sounded. In what is considered by some to be 'uneducated' speech, the /k/ may be realised as /t/. Similarly, 'asked' may be realised as /ɑ:st/

[billmcd]

/ɑ:sks/

It's not particularly easy to pronounce, and the /k/ may be quite lightly sounded. In what is considered by some to be 'uneducated' speech, the /k/ may be realised as /t/. Similarly, 'asked' may be realised as /ɑ:st/

Yes, and you will hear "ax" and "axed"(past) by AmE speakers.

[5jj]

Yes, and you will hear "ax" and "axed"(past) by AmE speakers.

I am far from being an expert on AmE, but I would suggest that these forms are not used by anybody with a claim to being educated.

[raindoctor]

How to pronounce asks?

ass [æs]
asks [æs:]

s: = geminated/lengthened s

[5jj]

ass [æs]........asks [æs:].......s: = geminated/lengthened s

asks /æs:/ is not heard in BrE, although /ɑ:s:/ is possible.

[billmcd]

I am far from being an expert on AmE, but I would suggest that these forms are not used by anybody with a claim to being educated.

True, and I can provide similar horror stories.

[BobK]

I am far from being an expert on AmE, but I would suggest that these forms are not used by anybody with a claim to being educated.

Depends what you mean by 'educated'. Lindon Kwezi Johnson (sp?) does it, and he's British.

b

[birdeen's call]

/æsks/ for the accents unaffected by the trap-bath split, including, perhaps most notably, General American.

[Tdol]

Depends what you mean by 'educated'. Lindon Kwezi Johnson (sp?) does it, and he's British.

b

It's used in some variants.