"But tocks"

[Tom Zurinskas]

m-w.com has "buttock" this way

Main Entry: but·tock
Pronunciation: 'b&-t&k also -(")täk
Click the icon and hear it pronounced ~budik (~ =truespel notation).

Instead, I would have assumed the main pronunciation would be ~buduk.  I've
heard ~budaaks (~aa as in "Saab").  Can't recall hearing an obvious ~t
instead of a ~d though.

Two issues
1.  The "t" in USA English is often pronounced "d".  I wonder how often that
is.
2.  Schwa stands for several sounds.

Truespel book 3 (beginner's dictionary) is th e only one I know of (any
others?) that shows all schwas spelled out into various sounds.  Also it
shows alternative spellings for "d" for "t" substitution, and glottal stop
substitutions for ending "t".


Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL4+
See truespel.com and the 4 truespel books at authorhouse.com.





>From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
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>Subject: "But tocks"
>Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 22:17:01 -0500
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>Poster:       Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
>Subject:      "But tocks"
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>Has anyone else noticed the growing tendency to use Forrest Gump's
>pronunciation of "buttocks," as well as the tendency to use the word
>as though it was spelled "buttox." From today's NYT D6c:
>
>The ... device was placed in her upper buttocks ..."
>
>An accompanying diagram shows that the placement was into only one buttock.
>
>-Wilson
>--
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>complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
>-----
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>a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our
>race. He brought death into the world.
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