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When the highlight of a discussion between Dana Walden and Ken Ziffren is how to pronounce the series name 9-1-1, you know ...

Cillian Murphy did anything but bomb at the 2024 Golden Globes on Sunday, winning the Best Actor in a Motion Picture — Drama trophy for his performance as J. Robert Oppenheimer in Oppenheimer.

But the ax pronunciation stuck around—and ax and ask coexisted for a long time. “Around the year 1400, it looks like the two were equally available to speakers,” says Adams.