Then I'm afraid to say, it reached the UK several years ago. (Perhaps decades.) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ask#Noun https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ask#Noun

Then I'm afraid to say, it reached the UK several years ago. (Perhaps decades.) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ask#Noun https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ask#Noun definition #2. (Definition #1 is the directly problematic one.)