Appearance on Fox NY News, “What Are the Most-Hated Words in the English Language?” (May 30, 2013)
Are there words that you absolutely hate either because of their meaning or just because of the way they sound?
Ben Zimmer, a linguist and executive producer of Vocabulary.com, said “word aversion” is the term linguists use to describe the visceral reaction some people have to words that really bother them. He said many hated words have to do with bodily functions.
“Moist” is so heavily despised, detested, loathed and abhorred it even has its own Facebook pages, but there are plenty of others.