Taboo replacements

[Rick Mc Callister]

In German isn't the word arschloch? The Germans who settled in the US were
principally from the Rhine valley, so any German influence would come from
that area but I think a more logical explanation can be found in some
American or British dialect

>I heard once of a German word `assloch' = "anus". Perhaps there is
>influence here from German immigrants: compare the USA English word
>"burg" = "town" taken from German, and a USA habit of mispronouncing UK
>placenames ending in "-burgh" as if they were spelt "-burg".

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