BULLOCKS - euph/typo/LA pron.?

[neil]

on 3/5/05 12:36 pm, neil at neil at TYPOG.CO.UK wrote:

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> From the Acknowledgments of 'The Best Awful':
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> 'For Tracey and Johnny -- thank you both so ['so' itals] -- bullocks -- much
> for your continued -- tits tits tits -- support. Without the two of you --
> cockring -- these lingering coughs would be more difficult to -- wanker --
> bear.'
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> --Carrie Fisher, 'The Best Awful', 2004 (Pocket Books, London, 2005, XIV)
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> It would seem that euphemism is unlikely, given the context and use of
> swearwords throughout the novel.
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> As for a typo, the only one I found was when reindeers Donner and Blitzen
> were referred to as Donder and Blitzen.
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> So is it LA pronunciation?
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> --Neil Crawford

Sorry! Forgot to say I assume BULLOCKS is a variant of BOLLOCKS
(testicles/nonsense).

--Neil