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
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    92 years ago

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

    • @schism
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      282 years ago

      Those words do not sound the same

    • @[email protected]
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      42 years 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.

    • Someology
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      32 years ago

      Nope. They do not sound the same.

    • @[email protected]
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      12 years ago

      Not quite. Brits don’t pronounce the R before a consonant, but the vowel will be more similar to the vowel in “paw” than in “ash.”

    • @[email protected]OP
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      02 years ago

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