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Yes, they SHOULD die for pronouncing "ask" as "axe".

Actually "Axe" is over twelve centuries old and was indeed the way it was pronounced. The very early bible states ‘Axe and it shall be given.’ The American slaves we taught language from their owners who also used the word Axe.

@EMC2 The Stephen Frye video at the end is interesting, too. I can rationalize it, but it still drives me nuts to hear it.
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I wrote a long comment about ‘aks’ a good while back. It isn’t standard English, but only for about 150 years. It is a perfectly correct dialect variation, and it was pretty much a toss up as to which became standard. As it turned out, the OED lexicographers had a preference for ‘ask’, followed and preceded by most, but not all, other English dictionaries. In a large number of English, Irish, Scots, and Welsh localities, ‘aks’ is still the go to version. And most Brits of Caribbean descent, like most African Americans, prefer ‘aks’. It’s in their linguistic culture, having been learnt from their white, Brtish (all) slave-masters, who also used that form.
You say ‘hood’, I say ‘bonnet’; you say ‘trunk’, I say ‘boot’. It doesn't matter.
Language is always in a state of flux. One language shared in many different places will develop differently in each of those places compared to the way it develops in the others. Standardisation works to ensure people will understand each other, but only really works in formal or educational contexts. It takes a long time to filter down to the daily speech that people will use where they live or come from. The only rules that tend to remain consistent for a long time are those concerning grammar, not vocabulary. Poor or unusual grammar can completely alter the meaning of the wriiten word, and less often the spoken word, at least in the context of English.

"You know what they mean.", is no excuse. Ignorance (not knowing)( can be forgiven, stupidity (not caring and/or making excuses for ignorance), is not forgivable. Making the excuse, "You know what they mean.", makes as much sense as, 2 + 2 = 5...because you know what they meant.