Buh-tocks (was Re: finite ...)

Neal Whitman nwhitman at AMERITECH.NET
Tue Jul 31 15:33:26 UTC 2012


I thought this pronunciation was a Forrest Gump thing. Has anyone heard it from before 1994?

Neal

On Jul 31, 2012, at 12:04 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> Unless you train yourself to think, "Oh, it's only language-change in
> progress," you're going to find yourself in tears.
>
> Millions of oafs heard that misuse of "finite" and it's probably going
> to become as ubiquitous as "buh-tocks," a pronunciation that I've now
> heard used even by physicians.
>
> --
> -Wilson
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> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
> to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> -Mark Twain
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