Couldn’t be asked/arsed?

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Which do you use?

Thank you! I was wondering if perhaps arsed was a corruption of asked but it took off

There's a k in one and not the other??

@mmaudelovesharold you made me laugh nailed it!

Arsed.

Asked doesn't make any sense.

Maybe it's regional because in the north I would say there is a lot of "can't be asked."

But I'm not sure if my teachers or other professionals just used this version to make it more appropriate.... Because I remember a few teachers saying it this way.

Arsed. Asked makes absolutely no sense at all.

To make this more complicated...

Can't be axed is also a thing. 😂😭

Arsed or assed

Never asked. That's just a mispronouncication.

Why does something have to be regional, rather than just plain wrong?

It's arsed.

But...I have a group of black friends and they tend to say asked...or it sounds like it. They have Jamaican and barbadian accents so perhaps a regional thing?

It's just like Chester drawers. A mishear

It’s definitely arsed. But I think a lot of people tell their children it’s asked if they’re … asked. 🙈

Well, this is interesting. A few years ago I worked in kids' TV, and one afternoon one of our presenters said "can't be arsed" during a live broadcast. In the next cartoon break we hauled him out of the studio to give him a dressing down and he was absolutely baffled—he insisted he'd said "can't be asked", and claimed to have no idea that "can't be arsed" was even a thing. We still had to get him to apologise to the viewers, but those of us in the production team (who were a bit older than him) did wonder whether the phrase was changing among younger people.

Arsed. There was a thread about this a while ago and a poster swore blind it was asked and she knew because her husband was in the army……

And yes, I’ve seen it on here, but I’ve also seen brought for bought more times that I can remember and that is just as wrong.

Because in the region I'm in it's arrrsed, but I've seen it a few times on here as Asked so I thought hmm I wonder why some people say asked but round here it's arrrsed, maybe it's regional as it happens frequently enough for that to be a possibility that it's actually a thing.

I’ve seen it and consider it on a par with should have , could have etc.
Except I wrote of both fecking times and had an epic battle with my phone, which won. How the fuck do people manage to write could. Of. All the frigging time!

I say I can’t be assed.

I don’t use the word arse, I use the word ass.

Are you sure you haven’t misheard?

I don't think "arsed" makes all that much sense either, if you think about it.

You say you couldn't be assed??

I think I've overthought the whole thing

Its actually either. Couldn't be asked or "arks" is a term/dialect used in London mainly by the black community.

I suppose arsed doesnt make a lot of sense but its definitely arsed not asked.

Probably to do with getting off you arse.

Always thought it was asked but have been corrected many times

“Arsking” vs “arsing” would be the same as “ask” vs “arse”. Trust me, “can’t be asked” is definitely not just an online thing - lots of people say it in real life in parts of London. It is the result of mishearing, but it has become so commonplace that you’ll hear one as much as the other in some parts.