Arse or Ass The Debate !

UK. "ARSE"
USA "ASS"

I want to see a real debate on really which one should be chosen as the right term for "vulgar buttock."

I feel confused, someone please enlighten me.

reply to post by wiredamerican


ugh...your an ASS!

reply to post by wiredamerican


Arse just feels like a polite way to say ASS!! lol

I think it depends on what you want to say: Asshat is a much better insult than arsehat, for example

Either one, they're both English. I kind of like to use the word "ass" myself. I've heard Canadians both French speaking and English speaking use "arse." One French lady I know, laughs, when she says the word "arse." I think people say "arse" if they want to be polite. Nothing wrong with being polite. I'd use which ever one I felt most comfortable with.

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Originally posted by suigeneris
reply to post by wiredamerican

 

Arse just feels like a polite way to say ASS!! lol

Agreed. It's censor-proof...

Arse...

Ass just makes me think of a donkey.

It's not polite.. lol.. adding the word Hole to the end of either Arse or Ass, and the former, to me, has more sinister intent...

Won't matter much longer anyway, all the cool kids in Australia say Ass now, because they are arses...

reply to post by wiredamerican
USA/Modern English = Add
Britain/Old English = Arse

reply to post by wiredamerican


Truthfully I can't think of anyone I know that actually pronounces the R in arse.
It's more down to the difference in how we pronounce the letter A

Like any good $h!t talking scenario, it's all in the context.

hath thou wipeth thine arseloch?

reply to post by wiredamerican


We in the land of Oz say arse the whole bit comes after.

T. T. I. W. W. P.

reply to post by MzMorbid


Asshat is a very confusing word. Exactly how do you pronounce this?

To me, it would be pronounced ASH - AT.

I don't think that's correct though, but that's how it reads to me.

I imagine one is supposed to think ASS HAT.

But that really makes no sense. What kind of an insult is that? Calling someone a hat? A hat would not stay on an ass anyway.

Side note - I'm an American and I could never understand why Britons insulted each other by calling them a "sod". Sod = expensive pre grown grass which is used in landscaping. When you hear "sod" in the US - it's in reference to grass. Just a head's up for travelers.
(I do understand what the Brits mean by this now )

reply to post by wiredamerican


I prefer arse since it's not what we American's usually say

Well when I call someone an arse I don't generally want to compare them to a donkey ...so drop that second S and give me my R and E back.

It's arse.

its ass
arse is some british slang, bloody fish and crisps

reply to post by giuve424


Actually the spelling of arse was around before ass.

In the sense of referring to the 'back door' at least.


There was an isolated occurrence of the ass spelling in Britain in 1860, though it otherwise appears to be as recent perhaps as the 1930s, well after the selling arse was fully fledged.

So by age alone, arse wins

Arse.

I would be ridiculed if I ever called anyone an ass or an asshole and considered a bit of a prick if I'm to be honest.