Heard on The Judges: more influence of Forrest Gump's "BUH tock_s_"?

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Apr 30, 2008, at 9:20 AM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> Thirty-ish black, female plaintiff:
>
> "Her boyfriend shot her in the _butts_!

does look like "butt" reshaped under the influence of "buttocks".  and
then, of course, comes the double plural "buttses" (like the
"buttockses" we talked about on 2/10/08).

Wait for this to load and you will laugh your buttses off! ...
kawaiimimiru.deviantart.com/journal/?offset=20

UPS couldn't find there own buttses with a flashlight, a GPS, ... I
will forever use "OMGWTF iz up with j00? ur bein a pain in our
buttses. ...
cmpriest.livejournal.com/791091.html

Our buttses were like so stiff and like so sore from like snowplowing
with the little guy that we... Snowplowing made our buttses sore.
rabidrunner.blogspot.com/2007/04/concision.html

This game really kicks some major monkey buttses! :
crazy-izam.deviantart.com/journal/?offset=10

and then an example referring to cigarette butts rather than the body-
parts:

That afternoon we gathered a hatful of cigarette "buttses" along the
street, ... We rambled along, singing songs, smoking cigarette
"buttses," and having a ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=0226751260...

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