[arachne] Re: Contributing.. what is PITA

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On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 11:23:22 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote:

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> On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 09:27:23 +0011, Peter Lawrence wrote:

>> It is neither well known nor colloquial. It is US dialect. PML.

> It's not dialect, it's slang--known wherever American English is
> spoken. But it's not known by the accronym "PITA" but as the
> phrase "pain in the ass". A really big annoyance is often called
> a "royal pain in the ass". Obviously American slang. While there
> are many dialects of American speech a word like "ass" which is
> commonly used wherever American English is spoken is not dialect.

The point is, American English IS a dialect (with sub-dialects).
That's why I put "US dialect". But I, too, was focussing more on
"PITA" than on your conflation of "ass" and "arse", probably one that
arose from misspelling after a pronunciation shift made them sound the
same in US dialect. PML.
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