groin

[Jonathan Lighter]

Frightening if true.
JL


On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Hillary Brown
<hillaryhazelbrown at gmail.com>wrote:

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> I believe you can attribute that altered pronunciation to "Forrest Gump."
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> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Charles Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
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> > *"He hurt his left head"?  Surely not, Ron!
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> > ". . . left butt" might be a little different, since "butt" seems sort of
> like an abbreviation or synonym for "buttock" (which our students now, for
> some reason, all pronounce [b at tak] instead of [b at d@k]).
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> > --Charlie
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