When did the word "ask" start being pronounced "aks"?

don’t be a swagger hater :)

If you speak correctly, you don’t say ‘aks’, I don’t care where you live.

Information here, courtesy of Harp.

It is everywhere, around the same time the “library” became the “libary”.

Umm.. no. That’s just incorrect on all levels. Ask is ask, library is library, spaghetti is spaghetti, Massachusetts is Massachusetts. Anyone who says otherwise isn’t saying the word properly.
Note: This is different than the “envelope” and “potato” thing. Those can be pronounced differently, but still said right. Ask and aks aren’t the same.
Yes, this is a pet peeve of mine. It also bugs me when my friend says “whats if” instead of “what if” and yes I do correct her every time. Now she corrects herself. =]

I say ask. I have heard aks many times before, and understand that it is a hard word to say. I can not say 55 to save my life…unless I say it really slow. Fitftyt-fvt Ff-f-fty-fvtfe Ffffffty-ffffv

The correct spelling of “aks” is “axe”. When someone axes you a question, the question is meant to be like the bladed axe, & the question is meant to hurt you, usually by being difficult to answer in some way. For example, if I know you recently broke up with your boyfriend, I would axe you how your boyfriend is doing. To axe a question is about the same as hitting someone with an axe.

I know it started a long, long time ago. I heard it often in my teen years. (East Coast)

takes too much time to enunciate “ask” so it comes out “aks.”

usually you are in heated debate when the word pops up, hence the above. funny you asked that question.

@90s_kid…...............................
this might help you count to 55

That 55 year old girl is soo funny.
:)
Didn’t help, actually made it worse, but thanks for trying haha.

As Harp said, courtesy of Laureth, the /aks/ variant is just as old as the /aks/ variant (ie HUNDREDS OF YEARS OLD), and it’s only by happenstance that it came to be spelled [ask], which is why most people pronounce it that way. So let’s not get too snobby about the whole thing. :)

Aye, the olde English theorie! Befor thee printing press, there were no standarde spellings. It be funnee how we resurect thee olde words, is it not, lad?