And in Late West Saxon 1000 years ago, where 'ascian' had undergone a metathetic shift to 'acsian'. If that dialect had prevailed in the evolution into what is now English, everyone would be saying 'aks' instead of 'ask'.

Spanish has plenty of examples of metatheses where it deviates from the typical consonant clusters of the equivalent words in its fellow Romance languages. Those early Spanish speakers would at some point have been considered 'wrong' and 'uncultured' by speakers of Catalan, for example. Yet their reordered form became the language of the state, and thence the empire, with 500 million speakers today, who all say 'olvidar' for 'forget', for example, when they 'should' be saying 'oblidar' (cf. oblivion, oublier (Fr)).