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"We Know You Hate ‘Moist.’ What Other Words Repel You?"

Interesting read

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/07/science/moist-word-aversion.html

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"Irregardless"

Just how does that word make sense?
I'd like to know...irregardless of its correctness. 😀

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Originally posted by @wolfe63
"Irregardless"

Just how does that word make sense?
I'd like to know...irregardless of its correctness. 😀
And we all know that there is no such word, right?

I hate the word that was not a word in my youth: SNUCK

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It's a phrase that gets me - I could care less.
That means "I do care, perhaps more than I should" but that isn't what the speaker is actually intending, is it? They're trying to say the exact opposite. Just like irregardless.

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Originally posted by @wolfe63
"Irregardless"

Just how does that word make sense?
I'd like to know...irregardless of its correctness. 😀
"Absolutely", as a replacement for plain "yes". Or, as the BBC seems to prefer, "ohabsolutely", as one word.

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Yous: GRRRRRR🙄😠

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Smegma.

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'It's' when it should be'its'.

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Originally posted by @torunn
'It's' when it should be'its'.
It’s an easy mistake to make, especially considering that auto-correct sometimes gets its grammar wrong.

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Originally posted by @moonbus
It’s an easy mistake to make, especially considering that auto-correct sometimes gets its grammar wrong.
Auto-correct is probably the reason.

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Originally posted by @kewpie
It's a phrase that gets me - I could care less.
That means "I do care, perhaps more than I should" but that isn't what the speaker is actually intending, is it? They're trying to say the exact opposite. Just like irregardless.
You picked my favourite phrase. "I could care less". 😉 You are correct what I mean is I don't really care!

-VR

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Worcestershire sauce.

Impossible to say!!

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Originally posted by @torunn
Auto-correct is probably the reason.
Nah. People got this wrong when there wasn't any autocorrect, as well. And there, their and they're; at least autocorrect stops (some...) people writing thier or thair.

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Originally posted by @shallow-blue
Nah. People got this wrong when there wasn't any autocorrect, as well. And there, their and they're; at least autocorrect stops (some...) people writing thier or thair.
To the two of you who got this too...who, who and whom are rancid....through and threw!

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Originally posted by @wolfe63
To the two of you who got this too...who, who and whom are rancid....through and threw!
"i before "e" except after "c"....ya right.🙄😠