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How many syllables in the word arsehole?

This has been the hot topic of conversation at work in the last 3 days.  Now we have had people say 2, 3 and 4 rather than just pick one of them please explain how you arrive at your choice!!

arse-hole = 2 syllables.

How on earth can anyone mangle the language enough to get more syllables out of it?

and what a fascinating discussion topic to pass your time with. where do you work?

no ambiguity, it's two

How i arrived at my choice is that the answer is two, so i put two

oh, and definitely two. don't see how you can get more out of it

If anything it's closer to one than three or four

You logical exposition is without fault, so much so I have to agree with you.

I suppose in Jocklish it could be pronounced ar-ris-hole.  But in English, two syllables definitely.

if only Flushy was here he'd have this sorted in a shot. ;)

If this is said by a JH girl selling apples and oranges in Dublin theres 3 syllables in it....

e.g. "Sorry love, wheres your bananas?"
JH " Theyre up me hole (pronounce hoe-el)

so arsehole is obviously 3 syllables

in jockish i say 2, cus well the answer is 2 what "rs-hole" could think it was 4!?

are we talking in welsh or english?

ass·hole      /ˈæsˌhoʊl/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[as-hohl] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun Vulgar.
1. anus. 
2. Slang. a. a stupid, mean, or contemptible person. 
b. the worst part of a place or thing. 
 
–adjective
3. Slang. stupid, mean, or contemptible. 


Which ever way you say it -- even with a dublin accent -- as a noun or an adjective -- it has two repeat two syllables -- fact

he works in the collins english dictionary troubleshooting department

It is 2 syllables.
My friend studied English Literature and he teaches english to Chinese and Japanese students coming to the UK to study fulltime here. He sits all the new arrivals round one big table and introduces himself and the course. Last year, he was giving this speech, and told them that he would be leading them for the year. One of the Japanese students laughed uproariously, pointed at him, saying 'YOU ASSO!'. Pardon me? 'You ASSO!', banging the table and laughing his head off. Not being so understanding, he took the guy outside for a 'word', and explained that such language was 'inappropriate' in a university environment. The guy looked totally flumoxed 'You asso! King asso! Lreada! Roun Tabul!'

So, 2 syllables, in any language....

sorry, didn't understand that

East asians have big trouble with hard 'r's and 'th', Arthur comes out 'Asso' especially to english newbies. Took my mate a while to get it too...

Bandit's Boss : How come you guys were 2 hours late back from lunch

Bandit's colleagues : We were playing charades, and the shit just got messy.

:D

There are no set no of sylables(sp) in a word, my missus has a degree in english and studied phonetics for 2 years, and we had this discusion this week.

It depends on accent and also the shape anway a word is formed by the mouth.

the word beer.........one sylable(sp) to most

welsh tend to say it as 2 . berr yah.

I just went to ask her and her reply was................

............................ what the fkin hell you waking me up for, you on the internet again..........why would anyone need to know that...................have you flee'd the cat, don't eat all the busciuts?

so still no idea

had you flee'd the cat?

He was going to flee the cat, but the cat fled first.