for the taboo avoidance file: "jackass"
Ronald Butters
ronbutters at AOL.COM
Fri Mar 16 17:04:17 UTC 2012
Would they also generate, as pronounced in rapid speech, "{bleep} not what your {bleep}ry can do for you, {bleep} what your {bleep}ry can do for you"?
On Mar 16, 2012, at 12:57 PM, Geoffrey Nunberg wrote:
> Used by a U of Louisville fan to describe fans of U of Kentucky in an interview in NPR's coverage of the NCAAs yesterday: the second syllable was bleeped.
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> Geoff
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