[Dixielandjazz] The ax in music

Nancy Giffin nancyink at ulink.net
Sat Jun 14 15:18:53 PDT 2003



John Farrell" wrote:

>   [excerpt] "...As a matter of fact "axe" (Yanks, note the impressive spelling
>   caned into me at the best English schools) is derived from the German.


Hello John,

In the U.S., there are three acceptable spellings for this word:
"ax," "axe," and "ask."






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