Moist | The ick factor and damp semantics | Word Bomb | S1 E5 | TVO Podcasts

Why are people so hung up on the word "moist"? Pippa and Karina wade into the damp, the humid and the slightly wet as they dismantle English's most hated word (and repeat it enough to cure themselves of word aversion).

If you want to learn more about word aversion, here’s that study from Trinity University and Oberlin College, titled — yes, this is the actual title — “A Moist Crevice for Word Aversion: In Semantics Not Sounds.”

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