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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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[–] Madbrad200@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

arse is 100% pronounced differently to "ass"

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] garlic@feddit.nl 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You said the complete opposite, that it's "spelling not pronunciation"

Yeah because arse just sounds like the British way of saying ass. Meaning it's not the pronunciation that's different it's the spelling. Arse sounds different because it is different.

Think of how the British accent sounds and which parts of the words are usually drawn out. If you didn't know they were too different words they should like every other word pronounced differently in British vs American English

[–] Haus@startrek.website 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've seen some Scottish and Irish comedians who lean into that 'r' like they're trying to kick a potato to Portugal.

[–] pi3r8@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

can confirm, that is how we talk!

[–] HorseRabbit@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lmao. I love when Americans just make shit up about Europeans

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

We never do that. Now go back to driving around in your biscuit powered car.

[–] pi3r8@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Surely no one actually thinks that's how Brits pronounce ass. Surely?

[–] Z3k3@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Tippon@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Ass is very rarely used to mean the body part in the UK

[–] RelentlessArts@feddit.uk 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Z3k3@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] animist@lemmy.one 0 points 1 year ago

They can't be arsed

[–] rockstarpirate@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah these are two very different pronunciations in Standard American English. /æs/ versus /ɑrs/

As a result there is a difference in severity as well, akin to the difference between “damn” and “darn”.

[–] Dark_Arc@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

From what I'm gathering, they have very different pronunciations in British English as well. I'm not sure about this shower thought, it seems like OP might be the one that's mistaken?

[–] Today@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

[–] schism@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Those words do not sound the same

[–] Blegh@lemm.ee 3 points 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.

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

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.”