Buh-tocks (was Re: finite ...)

[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Geoff Nathan <an6993 at wayne.edu> wrote:
> I've never pronounced it any other way, and always thought the reduced vowel in the second syllable was a British affectation > (I first heard it pronounced with a schwa in The Life of Brian--those who know the movie will recognize the context).

Interesting! Before I heard Forrest Gump say, "In the buh-tocks, sir,"
that anyone would ever use that pronunciation wasn't a possibility
that had ever occurred to me.

What about "mattock" or "hillock"?

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