SimonDoom
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Here's a link to a very short but useful article on the use of dialogue tags, and it makes a good empirical and logical case for using "said" and "asked" rather than more descriptive synonyms. In published fiction, 70% of the tags used are "said" and "asked."
https://prowritingaid.com/grammar/1008121/Nonstandard-Dialogue-Tags
https://prowritingaid.com/grammar/1008121/Nonstandard-Dialogue-Tags