..but if we, as a society, lose the genteel courtesy of kind and appropriate words, we are losing on another kind of front.
Decorum should not be sacrificed to modern society.
In butcher shops, you see "butts" and people order them. On military bases in the field, you see "butt cans" labeled as such for expended cigarettes. Sometimes, a person can become the "butt" of a joke.
Governor Palin said "butt." Much ado about nothing.