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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. (sh.itjust.works)
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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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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 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”.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's a fair assumption lol I didn't learn for a long time that it wasn't just the English way of pronouncing ass. It flows perfectly with the other differences in word pronunciation that it never even crossed my mind they could be different words.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

/ɑrs/

I have never heard an American say /ɑrs/ for any reason if the were not hanging around with Brits or referring to/imitating some British thing.