Buttock(s) -- Even sports trainers don't know what it/they is/are

[Jonathan Lighter]

CBS has admonished the Grammy community in formal language not to show up
in fashions that reveal the "buttocks" or certain other areas of interest.

Deriding the document on CNN, some commentator lady or other (age ca 35-40,
presumably PR or journalism background) said,

"First of all, they're using the word "buttocks" [pron. in the tradition of
"Botox"] in the year 2013, so right there's a problem."

Maybe it'd be less of a problem if people would just say it properly.

JL



On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
> > his right buttocks cheek
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> Perhaps he meant to say, "right butt-cheek."
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