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Showerthoughts • 1 year ago

American media regularly censors the word ass but not the English word arse despite most Americans not knowing the difference is spelling not pronunciation.

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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.

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Showerthoughts • 1 year ago

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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Those words do not sound the same

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