The Oxford English Dictionary took the view (in 1888) that arse was “obsolete in polite use,” and that the phrase “ignorant ass” was “now disused in polite literature and speech.” There is an amusingly disguised reference to arsehole in the august periodical The Times Literary Supplement (February 24, 1905), where a reviewer of De Profundis (Oscar Wilde’s account of his term of imprisonment for sodomy) wrote: “It is impossible, except very occasionally, to look upon his testament as more than a literary feat. Not so, we find ourselves saying, are souls laid bare.
— Ass/Arse
okay, i might have had a bit of a laugh at that last line.
okay, i might have had a bit of a laugh at that last line.
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