More to the point, pronouncing "ask" as "aks" is a linguistic artifact dating back to the original verb from West Saxon/Old English: axsian.
These linguistic artifacts crop up in odd places and are almost always a product of oral transmission. If you want to take the whole "correct" pronunciation thing to an extreme, "ask" is incorrect.
How we speak has much more to do with how we heard the language spoken as children than how educated we are.
Oh, and as far as you Englishmen go...it's also pretty settled that your pronunciation of the language exhibits greater divergence over time from "original" pronunciation than various colonial branches of the language.
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How we speak has much more to do with how we heard the language spoken as children than how educated we are.
Oh, and as far as you Englishmen go...it's also pretty settled that your pronunciation of the language exhibits greater divergence over time from "original" pronunciation than various colonial branches of the language.