the butt patrol

[Laurence Horn]

At 5:15 PM -0700 6/23/11, Arnold Zwicky wrote:
>On Jun 21, 2011, at 11:09 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
>
>>  On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 12:11 AM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
>>>  (with ADS-L references)
>>>
>>>
>>>http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2011/06/21/a-pain-in-the-grammatical-butt/
>>>
>>
>  > And then there's that pronunciation, "buh-tox" [b^.taks].
>
>a note on that:
>
>http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2011/06/23/accented-buttocks/
>
WAG (not mentioned in blog entry):  influence from "botox"
([bo.taks], with quasi-compound stress).

LH

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