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

  • Z3k3@lemmy.world
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    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.

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      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

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

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

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          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.

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            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