THE "ASK" LIST (By Edith Skinner, Tim Monich and Lilene Mansell): In RP and RP-based dialects, these words are pronounced with an “ah” sound
abaft brass-founder chanciest danced
advance, -s brass-hat, -s chancing dancer, -s
advanced brassie, -s (golf club) chancy Dancer
advancement, -s brassier chandler, -s dancing
advancing brassiest Chandler demand, -s
advantage, -s broadcast, -s chant, -s demanded
advantaged calf chanted demanding
aft calf's-foot chanter, -s disadvantage, -s
after calf-skin chantey disaster, -s
"after" prefixes calve, -s chanties disastrous, -ly
aftermath, -s calved chanting disastrousness
afternoon calves'-foot Chantrey distaff, -s
afterward calving chantries draft, -s
aghast can't chantry drafted
alabaster cask, -s Chantry drafter, -s
Alabaster casked chanty drafting
alas * casket, -s clasp, -s drafting
answer, -s casking clasped draftsman, -men
answerable cast, -s clasping draught, -s
answerably castaway, -s clasp-knife, -ves "draught" -prefixes
answered caste, -s class, -es draughtier
answerer, -s caster classed draughtiest
answering Castelnau classier draughtily
ask, -s casting, -s classiest draughtiness
asked casting-net, -s classiness draughty
asking casting-vote, -s classing draughtsman, -men
aunt, -s cast-iron classman encelograph, -s
auntie, -s castle, -s classmate, -s enchant, -s
avalanche Castlebar classmen enchanted
avast Castlerea(gh) classroom, -s enchanter, -s
bask, -s Castleton classwoman enchanting
basked castoff, -s classwomen enchantment, -s
basket, -s castor, -s classy enchantress, -es
basketball Castor command, -s enclasp, -s
basketful, -s castor-oil commanded enclasped
basketry cenotaph, -s commander, -s enclasping
basket-work chaff, -s commanding, -ly engraft, -s
bath, -s chaff-cutter, -s commandment, -s engrafted
bath-brick, -s chaffed commando, -s engrafting
bath-chair, -s chaffer, -s (noun) counterblast, -s engraftment
bathroom, -s (chaffer-verb = ) countermand, -s enhance, -s
behalf chaffiness countermanded enhanced
blanch, -es chaffing, -ly countermanding enhancement, -s
Blanche chaffy craft, -s enhancing
blanched chance, -s craftier ensample, -s
blanching chanced craftiest entrance, -s
blast, -s chancel, -s craftily entranced, -ly
blasted chancelleries craftiness epigraph, -s
blasting chancellery craftsman, -men epitaph, -s
blast-furnace, -s chancellor "craft" -endings example, -s
blast-pipe Chancellor daft exampling
branch, -s chancellorship, -s dafter fast, -s
Branch chancer daftest fasted
branched chanceries daftly faster, -s
branching chancery daftness fastest
brass, -es Chancery dance, -s fasting
brass-band, -s chancier Dance fastness
THE "ASK" LIST (page two):
fast-day, -s grasped masking path, -s
fasten, -s grasper, -s masque, -s pathfinder, -s
fastened grasping, -ly mast, -s Pathfinder
fastener, -s grass, -es master, -s pathless
fastening grass-cutter, -s "master-" prefixes pathway, -s
fastness, -es grassed "-master" suffixes planch, -es
"-fast" suffixes grass-green mastered planchette, -s
flabbergast, -s grasshopper, -s masterful, -ly plant, -s
flabbergasted grassier masterfulness planted
flabbergasting grassiest mastering planter, -s
Flanders grassing masterpiece planting
flask, -s grass-land mastery plaster, -s
flasket, -s grass-widow, -s mast-head, -s plastered
France grass-widower, -s mastiff, -s * plasterer, -s
Frances grassy nastier plastering
Francies half nastiest prance, -s
Francis "half-" prefixes nastily Prance
gasp, -s halve, -s nastiness pranced
gasped halved nasty prancer, -s
gasping halves outcast, -s prancing
ghastlier halving outcaste, -s quaff, -s
ghastliness handicraft, -s outcasted quaffed
ghastly hasp, -s outcasting quaffer, -s
giraffe, -s hasped outclass, -es quaffing
glance, -s hasping outclassed raft, -s
glanced indraught, -s outclassing rafted
glancing, -ly lance, -s outlast, -s rafter, -s
glass, -es Lance outlasted raftered
glass-blower, -s lanced outlasting rafting
glass-blowing lance-corporal paragraph, -s rascal, -s
glass-cutter, -s lancer, -s paragraphed rascalities
glassful, -s lancet, -s paragraphing rascality
glass-house, -s Lancet pass, -es rascally
glassier lancing passed rasp, -s
glassiest Lancing passable, -ness raspberries
glassily last, -s passably raspberry
glassiness lasted pass-book rasped
glass-paper, -s lasting, -ly passer, -s raspiness
glassware lastly passer-by rasping
glass-work, -s lath, -s passers-by raspy
glasswort lather, -s (foam) passing rather
glassy lathered pass-key, -s recast, -s
graft, -s lathering passman, -men recasting
"-graft" suffixes lathwork Passover, -s repass, -es
grafted lathy (like a lath) passport repassed
grafter, -s laugh, -s pass-word, -s repassing
grafting laughable past repast, -s
grant, -s laughableness pastime, -s reprimand, -s
Grant laughably past-master, -s reprimanded
granted laughed pastor, -s reprimanding
grantee, -s laugher, -s pastoral, -s salve, -s
granting laughing, -ly pastoralism salved
grantor, -s laughing-gas pastorate, -s salving
graph, -s laughing-stock, -s pastourage sample, -s
"-graph" suffixes laughter pasture, -s sampled
Grasmere mask, -s pastured sampler, -s
grasp, -s masked pasturing sampling
THE "ASK" LIST (page three):
shaft, -s
Shaftesbury
shan't
slander, -s
slandered
slanderer, -s
slandering
slanderous, -ly
slanderousness
slant, -s
slanted
slanting, -ly
slantwise
staff, -s
staffed
staffing
stagecraft
stanch, -es
stanched
stanching
stanchion, -s
statecraft For proper names not listed, it is best to check local pronunciation in
steadfast, -ly dictionaries to determine which vowel sound should be used in steadfastness
steadfast each particular situation.
supplant, -s
supplanted
supplanter, -s
supplanting In British English (RP), the words on the "ask list" are pronounced
task, -s with the ( ah ) as in "drama". In addition, there are a few words
tasked that are not "ask" - words since they are pronounced with an ( a )
tasking as in "Anne" in North American speech, but frequently take the (ah )
taskmaster, -s pronunciation in British English. It is best to check such factors as
task-mistress locality, class and education when considering the following words in a
telecast, -s British play. In North American, they are pronounced with (a)- Anne.
telegraph, -s
telegraphed Alexander rancher, -s
telegraphing arse, -s ranching
trance, -s bastard, -s "trans-" prefixes
transplant, -s bastardize, -s
transplantable bastardized
transplanted bastardizing
transplanting bastardy
vantage, -s contrast, -s
vast contrasted
vaster contrasting
vastest contrastive
vastly exasperate, -s
vastness exasperated
vasty exasperating
waft, -s exasperation, -s
wafted exasperator, -s
wafting haft, -s
witchcraft hafted
wrath ranch, -es
wrathful, -ly ranched
abaft brass-founder chanciest danced
advance, -s brass-hat, -s chancing dancer, -s
advanced brassie, -s (golf club) chancy Dancer
advancement, -s brassier chandler, -s dancing
advancing brassiest Chandler demand, -s
advantage, -s broadcast, -s chant, -s demanded
advantaged calf chanted demanding
aft calf's-foot chanter, -s disadvantage, -s
after calf-skin chantey disaster, -s
"after" prefixes calve, -s chanties disastrous, -ly
aftermath, -s calved chanting disastrousness
afternoon calves'-foot Chantrey distaff, -s
afterward calving chantries draft, -s
aghast can't chantry drafted
alabaster cask, -s Chantry drafter, -s
Alabaster casked chanty drafting
alas * casket, -s clasp, -s drafting
answer, -s casking clasped draftsman, -men
answerable cast, -s clasping draught, -s
answerably castaway, -s clasp-knife, -ves "draught" -prefixes
answered caste, -s class, -es draughtier
answerer, -s caster classed draughtiest
answering Castelnau classier draughtily
ask, -s casting, -s classiest draughtiness
asked casting-net, -s classiness draughty
asking casting-vote, -s classing draughtsman, -men
aunt, -s cast-iron classman encelograph, -s
auntie, -s castle, -s classmate, -s enchant, -s
avalanche Castlebar classmen enchanted
avast Castlerea(gh) classroom, -s enchanter, -s
bask, -s Castleton classwoman enchanting
basked castoff, -s classwomen enchantment, -s
basket, -s castor, -s classy enchantress, -es
basketball Castor command, -s enclasp, -s
basketful, -s castor-oil commanded enclasped
basketry cenotaph, -s commander, -s enclasping
basket-work chaff, -s commanding, -ly engraft, -s
bath, -s chaff-cutter, -s commandment, -s engrafted
bath-brick, -s chaffed commando, -s engrafting
bath-chair, -s chaffer, -s (noun) counterblast, -s engraftment
bathroom, -s (chaffer-verb = ) countermand, -s enhance, -s
behalf chaffiness countermanded enhanced
blanch, -es chaffing, -ly countermanding enhancement, -s
Blanche chaffy craft, -s enhancing
blanched chance, -s craftier ensample, -s
blanching chanced craftiest entrance, -s
blast, -s chancel, -s craftily entranced, -ly
blasted chancelleries craftiness epigraph, -s
blasting chancellery craftsman, -men epitaph, -s
blast-furnace, -s chancellor "craft" -endings example, -s
blast-pipe Chancellor daft exampling
branch, -s chancellorship, -s dafter fast, -s
Branch chancer daftest fasted
branched chanceries daftly faster, -s
branching chancery daftness fastest
brass, -es Chancery dance, -s fasting
brass-band, -s chancier Dance fastness
THE "ASK" LIST (page two):
fast-day, -s grasped masking path, -s
fasten, -s grasper, -s masque, -s pathfinder, -s
fastened grasping, -ly mast, -s Pathfinder
fastener, -s grass, -es master, -s pathless
fastening grass-cutter, -s "master-" prefixes pathway, -s
fastness, -es grassed "-master" suffixes planch, -es
"-fast" suffixes grass-green mastered planchette, -s
flabbergast, -s grasshopper, -s masterful, -ly plant, -s
flabbergasted grassier masterfulness planted
flabbergasting grassiest mastering planter, -s
Flanders grassing masterpiece planting
flask, -s grass-land mastery plaster, -s
flasket, -s grass-widow, -s mast-head, -s plastered
France grass-widower, -s mastiff, -s * plasterer, -s
Frances grassy nastier plastering
Francies half nastiest prance, -s
Francis "half-" prefixes nastily Prance
gasp, -s halve, -s nastiness pranced
gasped halved nasty prancer, -s
gasping halves outcast, -s prancing
ghastlier halving outcaste, -s quaff, -s
ghastliness handicraft, -s outcasted quaffed
ghastly hasp, -s outcasting quaffer, -s
giraffe, -s hasped outclass, -es quaffing
glance, -s hasping outclassed raft, -s
glanced indraught, -s outclassing rafted
glancing, -ly lance, -s outlast, -s rafter, -s
glass, -es Lance outlasted raftered
glass-blower, -s lanced outlasting rafting
glass-blowing lance-corporal paragraph, -s rascal, -s
glass-cutter, -s lancer, -s paragraphed rascalities
glassful, -s lancet, -s paragraphing rascality
glass-house, -s Lancet pass, -es rascally
glassier lancing passed rasp, -s
glassiest Lancing passable, -ness raspberries
glassily last, -s passably raspberry
glassiness lasted pass-book rasped
glass-paper, -s lasting, -ly passer, -s raspiness
glassware lastly passer-by rasping
glass-work, -s lath, -s passers-by raspy
glasswort lather, -s (foam) passing rather
glassy lathered pass-key, -s recast, -s
graft, -s lathering passman, -men recasting
"-graft" suffixes lathwork Passover, -s repass, -es
grafted lathy (like a lath) passport repassed
grafter, -s laugh, -s pass-word, -s repassing
grafting laughable past repast, -s
grant, -s laughableness pastime, -s reprimand, -s
Grant laughably past-master, -s reprimanded
granted laughed pastor, -s reprimanding
grantee, -s laugher, -s pastoral, -s salve, -s
granting laughing, -ly pastoralism salved
grantor, -s laughing-gas pastorate, -s salving
graph, -s laughing-stock, -s pastourage sample, -s
"-graph" suffixes laughter pasture, -s sampled
Grasmere mask, -s pastured sampler, -s
grasp, -s masked pasturing sampling
THE "ASK" LIST (page three):
shaft, -s
Shaftesbury
shan't
slander, -s
slandered
slanderer, -s
slandering
slanderous, -ly
slanderousness
slant, -s
slanted
slanting, -ly
slantwise
staff, -s
staffed
staffing
stagecraft
stanch, -es
stanched
stanching
stanchion, -s
statecraft For proper names not listed, it is best to check local pronunciation in
steadfast, -ly dictionaries to determine which vowel sound should be used in steadfastness
steadfast each particular situation.
supplant, -s
supplanted
supplanter, -s
supplanting In British English (RP), the words on the "ask list" are pronounced
task, -s with the ( ah ) as in "drama". In addition, there are a few words
tasked that are not "ask" - words since they are pronounced with an ( a )
tasking as in "Anne" in North American speech, but frequently take the (ah )
taskmaster, -s pronunciation in British English. It is best to check such factors as
task-mistress locality, class and education when considering the following words in a
telecast, -s British play. In North American, they are pronounced with (a)- Anne.
telegraph, -s
telegraphed Alexander rancher, -s
telegraphing arse, -s ranching
trance, -s bastard, -s "trans-" prefixes
transplant, -s bastardize, -s
transplantable bastardized
transplanted bastardizing
transplanting bastardy
vantage, -s contrast, -s
vast contrasted
vaster contrasting
vastest contrastive
vastly exasperate, -s
vastness exasperated
vasty exasperating
waft, -s exasperation, -s
wafted exasperator, -s
wafting haft, -s
witchcraft hafted
wrath ranch, -es
wrathful, -ly ranched