Todd Archer wrote:
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> Bill said:
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> >PS: and it's "arse", unless you are really claiming to be talking out >of
> >your donkey. let's call a spade a spade and call an arse an arse. ;-)
>
> It's ass in North America. I've only heard arse in modern Brit lit and
> Chaucer.
>
Of course Henry James echoes both u.s. & Brit usage, but you need to know the u.s. usage to get the glory of one character's name in _The Golden Bowl_, Fanny Assingham. I'm sure I remember James's characters using the English sense, also, in such phrases as "What an ass you are."
Carrol
> Todd
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