The colloquial pronunciation of "asked the question"

[sitifan]

The colloquial pronunciation of "asked the question" sounds like "ass the question," doesn't it?

 

[Rover_KE]

Answered here.

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[GoesStation]

A girl in an eighth-grade class with me became extremely embarrassed and flustered when, reading "Jack asked" aloud from a book the class was reading, she said "Jack-assed". This pronunciation is dominant in my region. "Axed" is also common.

 

[Glizdka]

"Jack axed Sally" sounds gruesome.

 

[GoesStation]

Nevertheless, "ax" as an alternative to "ask" is attested for no less than 1,200 years.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

The colloquial pronunciation of "asked the question" sounds like "ass the question," doesn't it?

Only sometimes.

In the US, it's pronounced different ways. Most common are:

- askt (That's the one you should use.)
- akst
- ast

 

[sitifan]

"d" "t" "k" cancellation (English sound cancellation)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzyD0ByZYMs

Do you agree with what he teaches in the video?

 

[sitifan]

In the US, it's pronounced different ways. Most common are:
- askt (That's the one you should use.)
- akst
- ast

Topic: Omission of /t/ in spoken American English. Level: intermediate to advanced.
https://youtu.be/xnXx0SvW2AU?t=444
If "asked" sometimes sounds like "ast," then "asked the question" sometimes sounds like "as(t) the question," doesn't it?

 

[GoesStation]

If "asked" sometimes sounds like "ast," then "asked the question" sometimes sounds like "as(t) the question," doesn't it?

Possibly, but they're different situations. "Asked" is hard for Anglophones to say because of its unusual (for English) consonant cluster. Dropping the /k/ is one way to make it easier. "Ask the" is a little awkward but less so; still, the same solution is possible. I generally soften the /k/ to a glottal stop which is probably barely perceptible. In more rapid or casual speech I drop it altogether.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

"d" "t" "k" cancellation (English sound cancellation)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzyD0ByZYMs

Do you agree with what he teaches in the video?

Pretty much. I've never noticed anyone drop the D from colder, but maybe it happens.

As for the K, the student might be confused by words that are written with a silent K, like know and knight. Pronouncing those Ks would be wrong.

 

[sitifan]

https://pronunciationstudio.com/how-to-pronounce-ask/
‘asked’ is pronounced:
/ɑ:s/ before a consonant (‘asked them’) without a /k/ or a /t/ sound.

 

[5jj]

https://pronunciationstudio.com/how-to-pronounce-ask/
‘asked’ is pronounced:
/ɑ:s/ before a consonant (‘asked them’) without a /k/ or a /t/ sound.

Posted here six minutes later.

 

[emsr2d2]

This thread is from February. At no point has Sitifan acknowledged either here or on WR that he/she is asking the same question on two forums. I am closing this thread.