Thread: Asked vs Said
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Old 12-17-2017, 10:06 PM   #57
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Originally Posted by BookCat View Post
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.
I figured as small as the UK was, you would all sound like Sean Connery.
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