When I first started selling insurance, I worked with this Dominican dude from Brooklyn that would say "axe" and it would drive my manager crazy. He was certain it was why he didn't have more sales.
"LEMME AXE U SUMPIN, MISS"
Forgot about this until now: When our merger went through, the company put in a dress code where you could only wear shorts on Fridays. He started wearing shorts every day and eventually got fired for it. Just their way of getting him out the door faster.
It's funny because using ax instead of ask is about a millennium old.