AKS (ask)

/AKS/ easy • Origin: African American Vernacular English; centuries old.

Phonetic spelling of ‘ask,’ often used in texting or regional dialects.

Let me aks you a question.

ask

Still appears in speech and texting for style or dialect.

She’s the main feed queen of Instagram.

This burger is bussin’.

He’s deep into doom scroll drip again today.

That chorus is a total earworm.

He made a typical guy dinner of steak and eggs.

Rain on our picnic is such a bummer.