the butt patrol

[Wilson Gray]

What about the influence of Gump's Reply? :

"In the buttocks [b^.tOks] / [b^.taks], sir."

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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
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On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
> At 5:15 PM -0700 6/23/11, Arnold Zwicky wrote:
>>On Jun 21, 2011, at 11:09 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
>>
>>> Â On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 12:11 AM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
>>>> Â (with ADS-L references)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2011/06/21/a-pain-in-the-grammatical-butt/
>>>>
>>>
>> Â > And then there's that pronunciation, "buh-tox" [b^.taks].
>>
>>a note on that:
>>
>>http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2011/06/23/accented-buttocks/
>>
> WAG (not mentioned in blog entry): Â influence from "botox"
> ([bo.taks], with quasi-compound stress).

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