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How to pronounce asks? :-?
 

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/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/
 

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/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.
 

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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.
 

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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.
 

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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.

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

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

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It's used in some variants.
 
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