Stink

  I've always hated the sound of that word.   And I absolutely abhor the expression, "so stinkin' cute."   The phrase gets plenty of use on the Facebook pages of some of my contacts, and it's meant as a compliment.  By certain people, I gather.  Yesterday, I heard a female news commentator, looking at a picture of the new British princess, say, "Oh, she so's stinkin' cute."  It happened to be the same reporter I'd seen at a health fair last summer, where she sat in a booth representing her TV station, and spent the whole time I was there with her eyes downcast looking at her phone and /or I-Pad.  She mustn't be interested in building her vocabulary.  Long words are harder to text anyway.