Now, there happens to be some people that were taught not to covet thy neighbor’s ass, or thy neighbor’s wife’s ass (apparently ranked in sequence of importance), which may have caused them some confusion.
How did a part of the human anatomy come to be called the same name as this animal (applies to the U.S. inmates – those in the U.K. know the difference between “an” ass and “their” arse, and its difference to a hole in the ground), and why do people want to laugh it off (unless for olfactory reasons)?
This brings up a question – does “arse” get a spell checker hit in the U.K. as it does in the U.S., or is there an auxiliary list of words that is automatically installed on British computers, and does that list include colour, honour, and GROUND FLOOR? (I’d asked R2 about “butt” but I fear he would say that’s what goats do)