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In the UK there's a north-south and class divide in the pronunciation of "asked". In the south, and among those who use Recieved Pronunciation (BBC English) it is pronounced "arsked"; in the north it is prounounced "asked" with a short A as in "asp". The same goes for many words with "a" as the main vowel, such as path, bath, past etc
I don't see how this helps solve the "said" question.
Oh, if I want to be gender neutral, I tend to use "they" instead. This rarely happens in fiction where the gender of a character is known.
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