Here’s some actual dictionary references to the alternate pronunciation boocoo.
‘Nobody’s limiting the discussion to “Oxford’s documented version of English” ‘
We can all learn something, including even you perhaps.
It’s common in the southern US and has been for decades. I’ll take a wild guess there are words used in Canada very commonly that I have little or no idea of, and don’t appear in Oxford’s documented version of English.
And you missed the part where “buku” was spelled and used correctly. If you’re going to correct me for incorrectly correcting someone you better be correct.
You’re off the rails. What you’re not comprehending is he did not make up “buku”. This is not a case of a nonsense term with no history. It’s a word that’s been in use at least in certain regions of the US since the 1960's. Here’s another entry in Urban Dictionary under a variant spelling with entries back to 2003.
Perhaps it’s regional and I happen to live in that region. It’s common usage to me. Another entry with a variant spelling with lots of entries dating back to 2003, but it’s usage in the US is from the 1960's.
Where do you look up slang? Here’s another entry you might find edifying.
The serious ones took a whimsical comment and tried to make it about the education level in America, and want to use Oxford references to justify objecting to common usage words in the comment section of a non-serious internet site. For someone positioning himself on the non-redneck or supposedly educated side,…
We’re in a movie with half the actors way too serious and the other half who aren’t.
You missed the play. This has zero to do with education level. I actually studied French at the Sorbonne. I’m aware of “beaucoup”. I’m also aware of the common usage in America of the term “buku”. Context is everything. Common usage has nothing to do with what’s currently in one of the “official” dictionaries, and…
Really? That’s cute. Now there’s some rule that words from common usage aren’t permitted in comments on blogs? Why don’t you come back with a link to the style guide for Splinter comments. I’ll be here.
“I don’t like to analyze myself because I might not like what I see.”- D. Trump
That’s just faux pedantic nonsense.
That’s really interesting. But it’s “buku”.
At one time it was a French colony, and at one time parts of current America were Spanish, French and English colonies. So what? He used a word that’s a corruption of another word. Happens often in language.
Yeah, thanks. But, the word he used is spelled “buku”. Many if not most words we actually use were derived from other words that were often spelled differently. What’s your point?
This is not an actual English thesis or literary document, it’s a comment section for a pretend journalism site. He used a term that’s well known and he spelled it in the vernacular that’s appropriate. It wasn’t a typo or misspelling. In that context pulling out a dictionary is silly.