Another "cuckoo's question"

[Brewer, Michael]

I couldn't get the link to download on my work computer, but from what I see here (and hearing the actor's voice in my head from memory) I would say it is a truncation of "about", which would sound like "bud" or something similar - You're about as big as a mountain.

Michael Brewer
University of Arizona Libraries
brewerm at u.library.arizona.edu


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Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 8:30 AM
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Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Another "cuckoo's question"

could it be 'built like a mountain'?

 
> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 04:52:22 -0500
> From: paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Another "cuckoo's question"
> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
> 
> [Overruling Konstantin's private reply-to setting]
> 
> Goloviznin Konstantin wrote:
> 
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I've got another question out of "... the cuckoo's nest". In the 
> > subtitles to the movie there is a phrase McMurphy tell the chief :
> >
> > Goddamn, boy, you're as big as a mountain!
> >
> > But really it can be heard as:
> >
> > Goddamn, boy, you're VULL ( or BULL or even BUD) as big as a 
> > mountain!
> >
> > I'm very interested what really is instead of these VULL /BULL /BUD?
> 
> Easy:
> 
> "Goddamn, boy, you're 'bout as big as a mountain!"
> 
> If you listen carefully, you can hear the schwa in "about."
> 
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