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American media regularly censors the word ass but not the English word arse despite most Americans not knowing the difference is spelling not pronunciation. (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ThatWeirdGuy1001@sh.itjust.works to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Edit: I don't mean they sound the same I mean the word arse is pronounced how I figured British would pronounce ass with the drawn r rather than the way arse is pronounced (at least where I'm from) it's a hard r

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[–] Z3k3@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Ass is pronounced ass and arse is pronounced arse

They are generally used differently at least in the bit of the UK I'm from

Ass is the body part/animal and rarely used as an insult

Arse is primarily used as an insult "I don't like him the man's an arse"

I have zero clue how it evolved this way beyond (to me at least) calling someone an ass just sounds wierd.

[–] Tippon@lemmy.fmhy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ass is very rarely used to mean the body part in the UK

[–] Z3k3@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I see, better double check were I live.

In all seriousness though where at its pretty common in the parts I'm at along the length of the forth and clyde canal

It's one of the fun things of living on an island with such a wide range of taking

[–] Kiosade@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

My first encounter with the word “arse” was when I played Conker’s Bad Fur Day on the N64 as a kid. I thought it was just a funny-sounding way to get around censors back then haha

[–] RelentlessArts@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel like parts of the UK have always said ass instead of arse. Like how some places say pants instead of trousers.

[–] Z3k3@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't pants an American thing? Never heard that word used here to mean anything other than certain types of underwear

[–] RelentlessArts@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Its another local accent word from nearish Manchester iirc that got taken over when colonists went to America. Its be like if mostly Yorkshire people went over as colonists and Americans used keks/kegs instead of pants.

[–] Z3k3@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

That I did not know. Always learning

I did just remember 1 innstane of pants as trousers

Trevor and Simon on Saturday morning tv heh