[Dixielandjazz] The ax in music

[Charlie Hooks]

on 6/14/03 2:18 PM, Nancy Giffin at nancyink at ulink.net wrote:

three acceptable spellings for this word:
"ax," "axe," and "ask."

       Now, now! It was confusions like this that got Lizzie Borden into
trouble:  she was dating a black guy, and when she said she didn't know how
her parents would feel about him, he said, "Then you should go home and axe
'em."