OnDusk

After weeks of blogging indecision, it’s obvious I need to start small. This post will be around one word. ‘aks’ Used in a sentence:   ‘go aks your sister’ , or ‘ I aksed her and she don’t know…’ Urban dictionary, for what it’s worth has a definition.   UB has in fact listed several of the variants, so they’ve given it some thought. I spent a while chasing the word around the UB site – reading about ebonics – along the way. UB is American, and that’s pretty clear from the site. So when applied to an Australian context, they were a bit cockeyed. But the reference to ‘manipulation and transformation of the English language’ works for me. You may be aware that aks is not slang. Its not rap, and its not lazy. It’s a little word that packs a big story.   What inspires you to write – a dream, a disappointment, a word? I was once inspired by a circle of tin nailed half way up a wall. It covered a hole, and had been painted over man...