Adam@Home by Rob Harrell for February 04, 2014

He should’ve used salve.

Lozenge! Moist! Spurt! Mucilage!

It seems there are a number of words that just bother people despite their ordinary meaning. One word that apparently has this problem is “moist” (also called out by another commenter). I don’t get curd and balm though – they sound really ordinary.

“Let’s balm those curds!”

Night-Gaunt49 – you must have been heard yesterday about your underwear vs. underpants preference. There’s words I really like but I can’t think of any that bother me.

Brewed Boxers?

:-) Cartoon linguistics!

I have the same problem with the word “whoha”, largely because it congers up memories of my mother yelling at my sisters about keeping theirs clean, but a lot of people use it as a generic word, like in the phrase “Don’t give a who-ha.”

At least “curd” sounds very close to a cuss word. “Balm”…is simply a four-letter word in the literal sense, but I don’t question other people’s audio tastes any more than their gustatory tastes.

Reminds me of the Monty Python skit about “tinny” words.