http://thecollegevoice.org/2009/11/30/just-axe-rush/ Connecticut College's independent student-run newspaper Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:22:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://thecollegevoice.org/2009/11/30/just-axe-rush/comment-page-1/#comment-2167 charlie Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:19:29 +0000 http://thecollegevoice.org/?p=1908#comment-2167 I must admit that I was equally ignorant of the history of ask/axe. But several years ago I read the 19th century novel " North and South" by Mrs Gaspel (spelling?), in which the speech of the factory workers included "axe" or "aks". The interesting thing about the Rush comments is that when he did this with the caller, Stacy ( who apparently is a regular caller), she was having none of it. Though she was otherwise in complete agreement with Rush, she told him to stop it. Obviously she thought it was racist. And he did stop, at least with her. I must admit that I was equally ignorant of the history of ask/axe. But several years ago I read the 19th century novel ” North and South” by Mrs Gaspel (spelling?), in which the speech of the factory workers included “axe” or “aks”.
The interesting thing about the Rush comments is that when he did this with the caller, Stacy ( who apparently is a regular caller), she was having none of it. Though she was otherwise in complete agreement with Rush, she told him to stop it. Obviously she thought it was racist. And he did stop, at least with her.

]]> http://thecollegevoice.org/2009/11/30/just-axe-rush/comment-page-1/#comment-348 John Dodig Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:47:32 +0000 http://thecollegevoice.org/?p=1908#comment-348 excellent article, james. i dug it very much. excellent article, james. i dug it very much.

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