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Updated: May 5, 2025
You say 'flahsk' and 'bahsket, and 'jackahss'; we say 'flask, 'basket, 'jackass' sounding the 'a' as it is in 'tallow, 'fallow, and so on. Up to as late as 1847 Mr. Webster's Dictionary had the impudence to still pronounce 'basket' bahsket, when he knew that outside of his little New England all America shortened the 'a' and paid no attention to his English broadening of it.
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