Come and see the violence inherent in the system!

So, I'm out for my normal 2-mile lunch walk and I get ahead of these women, and I overhear, "So she axed him. She axed him, then she turned around and axed me!" and I'm horrified. I don't want to turn around for fear of seeing this poor woman with a cleft skull, and I'm thinking, here this woman has Lizzy Bordon running around her office, she might be mortally wounded, and she's talking about it like it's an every day occurance.

What's wrong with this picture?

Which reminds me of my own near death experience. I went to the supermarket to pick up a few items and I see this new product, I can't remember the name nor is it important to this story, but I get in the checkout and the cashier picks it up and she's like, "Have you tried this?" And I'm like no, and she goes, "Cuz I was gonna ax you!" WTF? What kind of grocery story slaughters their customers for trying new products?
I have never returned there again!

So I ax you, what is the world coming to?

Or I could just stick it in my blog.

IceCreamEmpress said:

"Ax" as a subdialectical pronunciation of "ask" has been around since the 18th century. It's generally considered to be a sign of an uneducated speaker, but I know some tenured university professors who use it as a matter of course, because it is part of the subdialect they grew up with.

Ferret, dear, I don't see how you went all these years without encountering this very frequent variant pronunciation.

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I have encountered it before. I usually ignore it, but this particular woman's monologue just piqued my interest and imagination. Must be the horror writer in me.

Kitrianna said:

We do however say sherbert instead of sherbet.

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Which, of course, is the correct pronunciation (says the midwesterner).

It's odd, but everyone around us calls it pop, but Milwaukee is this little island that says soda.

Actually, yes, they are different. Here sherbet has dairy in it. Sorbet does not.