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 == Edit request from Scanrod, 21 June 2010 == 

  

 In the ""Ass"" article page this statement appears: 
 Arse British English spelling of the colloquialism for buttocks. 

 The term ""arse"" is not a colloquialism although it is ""not now in polite use"" (Concise Oxford Dictionary). Collins dictionary says 'taboo - Old English'.  Other terms are used in this context in UK English - fundament, anus, buttocks, rump. The word is also used to mean ""bottom"" as in arse-end (e.g. of the town). The expression in the article, since it is expressly meant to contrast with the US English usage, is probably best written simply as: 

 Arse: British English spelling of the word for buttocks (not now in polite use). 

  
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