Heard on The Judges: more influence of Forrest Gump's "BUH tock_s_"?

[Wilson Gray]

Good grief, arnold! Buttockses?! Not even "buttox - buttoxes"?! That's
downright criminal! And yet, there's nothing to be done.

-Wilson

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Arnold M. Zwicky
<zwicky at csli.stanford.edu> wrote:
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>               tock_s_"?
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>  On Apr 30, 2008, at 9:20 AM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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>  > Thirty-ish black, female plaintiff:
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>  > "Her boyfriend shot her in the _butts_!
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>  does look like "butt" reshaped under the influence of "buttocks".  and
>  then, of course, comes the double plural "buttses" (like the
>  "buttockses" we talked about on 2/10/08).
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>  Wait for this to load and you will laugh your buttses off! ...
>  kawaiimimiru.deviantart.com/journal/?offset=20
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>  UPS couldn't find there own buttses with a flashlight, a GPS, ... I
>  will forever use "OMGWTF iz up with j00? ur bein a pain in our
>  buttses. ...
>  cmpriest.livejournal.com/791091.html
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>  Our buttses were like so stiff and like so sore from like snowplowing
>  with the little guy that we... Snowplowing made our buttses sore.
>  rabidrunner.blogspot.com/2007/04/concision.html
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>  This game really kicks some major monkey buttses! :
>  crazy-izam.deviantart.com/journal/?offset=10
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>  and then an example referring to cigarette butts rather than the body-
>  parts:
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>  That afternoon we gathered a hatful of cigarette "buttses" along the
>  street, ... We rambled along, singing songs, smoking cigarette
>  "buttses," and having a ...
>  books.google.com/books?isbn=0226751260...
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