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A Finnish comedian, visiting the Conan O'Brien show, makes the compelling argument that "ass" is one of the more difficult pieces of English to master (bump the video to around 1:50).
Linguists of strong language agree:
A search for ass on GDoS currently yields 137 results, and the main entry for ass (n.) has 184 subentries, with compounds like ass-bucket (‘unpopular or unimportant person’) and expressions like give up the ass (‘accede to seduction’) and up to one’s ass in alligators (‘in very serious troubles’). Ass, in short, gets around. It’s a seriously productive-ass piece of vocabulary.
Here's also a survey of "the anal emphatic in English," or, papers that address "the intensifier 'ass.'"
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