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I definitely never unsubscribed from a YouTube channel just for that... (files.catbox.moe)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

If you consider gross misuse (i.e. mixing up "theory" and "hypothesis") to be a valid form of etymology (e.g. making new words), I have a question to axe.

(I apologize to linguists' families who now have to clean up bodily fluids and/or arrange a funeral.)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

The aks variant pronunciation of ask is fine. It is part of a dialect.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

It's not gross misuse, it's how the word work in common use.