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

  • Today@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Those words sound the same? I’m one of those Americans who did not know.

    • Blegh@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Not in the slightest in the UK. Source: in the UK.

      Ass isn’t really said, and more seen as an ‘Americanism’. Arse is way more common.

    • ThatWeirdGuy1001OP
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      1 year ago

      To me arse just sounded like the British way of saying ass and I never really questioned it but I learned eventually