Teacher and artist Sunn M’Cheaux has been posting on social media about “linguicism” after a reader asked him about the word “ax”, saying: “Why did we struggle saying ‘ask’? Like when I was little, I always said ‘ax’. Like I couldn’t say the word correctly.”
...Ask or aks? How linguistic prejudice perpetuates inequality
The English language has been in a constant state of flux for millennia, precisely as a result of contact with other languages