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@JohnAndRowForever I always think the same thing when I hear this song.
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Sounds Sooooooo...Paul McCartneyish....
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@mlleprufrock I Swear...I Don't hear that.
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It is the favorite song heard at the time of a junior high school student.
Billy's singing voice and freshness are loved!!
His song becomes the feeling which was very heart-warming.
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@mlleprufrock Metathesis is the name for changing the order of sounds in a word. It happens in many languages. Google "random house ax ask" or just "metathesis".
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Oh, this takes me back to working at Boston Store in the mid nineties. This was one of the many songs they piped in for shoppers. Ah... good times! LOL
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@mlleprufrock The word ax instead of ask was actually brought over by the English way back. The current English accent is actually nowhere near what it was in those days and back then, it was filled with words like Ax and many other things. There is an episode of vsauce that explores this as well, here on youtube.
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IU is today as Billy Joel was yesterday
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@mlleprufrock: I thought only black people said "ax" I guess you learn something every day!
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@mlleprufrock I never noticed that...kool, Thanks.
One of the loveable little quirks of this song is that at 1:47 he pronounces "ask" like "ax" which is a very NY thing to do.
mlleprufrock 1 year ago 37
He's so cool :D
HulloKat 7 months ago 26