Word aversion: Hate moist? Slacks? Crevice? Why do people hate words? - Slate Magazine - 39 views
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sexual connotations that are among the words that elicit this kind of reaction—moist being an obvious one,” he says. “But there are other words like luggage, and pugilist, and hardscrabble, and goose pimple, and squab, and so on, which I guess you could imagine phonic associations between those words and something sexual, but it certainly doesn’t seem obvious.”
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Casey Doyle on 08 Apr 13I feel like some gross words not only have sexual connotations, but also are gross sounding to the ear. For example, two words that I hate are crotch and groin (funny how similar they are!). They both are just awful to say, and seem to get stuck in your throat as you try to choke it out. But, they also have gross connotations! I wonder if they were named with a gross sound because they represent a gross meaning!
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