I don't hold anyone's accent against them - whether I enjoy hearing it or not. But, I have to admit that the way you speak says more about you than almost anything else. Luckily, with some work, it's a fairly easy thing to improve.

It's "asked," not "axed." I don't know if these people just fell asleep in English class or the school system, as we know it, has failed.

One of my employees- a really sweet girl name Syreeta- has a penchant for using a host of ebonics lingo when speaking to me. And though she is from a lower class, she works hard which makes this less of an offense than other items on the list. If anything this one is a product of the failed liberal education establishment for allowing her to grow up butchering the english language and retarding her growth within the free market system.

Me think not high 'bout pepul skrew-ing wit languaaaage. ..

If you're a teacher, you've heard this "term" too many times.

Upper class Cajuns talk this way.

Despite the pontifications of misinformed do-gooders, there really are thousands of low class white people in the greater New York area that say axed instead of asked. I live here so I encounter it every single day. The fact remains that far less people seem to excel in life with this linguistic dysfunction so it is a trait that is worthy of characterization on this list.

This is racist BS. I think a better indicator that a person is low-class is the use of astonishingly poor grammar. Like if the person likes to use "ain't" or "don't be" a ton. But I will be honest and admit that various places have fun dialects that everyone uses, understands and don't have a problem using. Back home in the islands, whenever people really get heated into arguments or complaining, the dialects get heavy. But in America, usually the people who speak REALLY badly are pretty ignorant, or so I've tended to find. I think this goes for all races. But saying "axed" is perfectly fine, I think whites are pretty anal about pronunciation in America and use it to discriminate. I don't really think it's a big deal. You'll find plenty of rich and middle-class blacks who say that, and I don't really care. I think in certain situations, it's proper to speak proper English, but in others, who cares? White Americans have their own dialects and slang too, only they like to think theirs is the standard...for the whole world. They already misspell several words in America and pronounce them different ways from the Queen's English, yet throw a hissy fit when anybody doesn't do what they do. Jaime Oliver got corrected by Jay Leno for his pronunciation of "pasta", which I get a lot of too. Seriously, is this more an issue over pronunciation or grammar? If it's pronunciation, then I think this country has a serious problem with accepting foreign cultures and attitudes of all nationalities and ethnicities!

Saying "axed" is also an affliction of some low class white people in the greater New York area.

This is more ebonics, as other people have said.

I've heard educated blacks use this word, so it's more of a cultural thing that a class or status thing, at least in my expereience, if you ax me.

In my experience the only people who do this are "simple" black folk. I have never heard it used by any other race or ethnic group. This is the launguage of the black streets. Someones gonna call me a racist here, but Im speaking reality here not hatred or prejudice. Not lower class, You can be poor and articulate. Low class is more accurtate.

You don't hear many people with any form of college education saying, "axed." When I hear "axed," I immediately think...this person is from the streets.

I read an article that many landlords who do not want to rent to minorities are grateful for this word. When they interview over the telephone and the caller says "axed," so the article went, the landlord can make up some excuse not to show the property.

Also, putting the verbal emphasis on "po" (rhymes with "dough") in "police." Let me be the first to make the non-PC observation that this listing and my observation above most directly relate to African-Americans on the lower end of the socioeconomic ladder.