Moist, Mucus, Gurgle

If the title didn't already turn you away from my blog topic 'o' the night, those must not be your word aversions. This evening I meandered blog to blog fascinated by these word aversions. Just like a pregnant woman can inhale a whiff of her food aversion and feel her stomach turn, words can be turned into a personal verbal faux pas of sorts...words that invoke illness at their sight or cause cringing as they cross the lips.

My journey started here, following a blurb from Michelle Williams' interview in Elle magazine's April issue. Michelle is truly a candid beauty, inside and out. She mentions how her hand is pictured in Dan Estabrook's artwork here, in a piece called Bleed.
http://pathetica.net/

{{If you have a moment longer, check out "Nine Symptoms" in his artwork section. Lovesick. Love and sickness. The symptoms are the same. It's peculiar and fascinating that our bodies display equivalent physical reactions to vastly different diagnoses.}}

Still with me? I clicky clicked on his blog where it told me to, came to another blog and scrolled down and the word "moist" bit my tongue. My word aversion. Bile crept up in my throat. Maybe bile is your word aversion?
http://parenthetically.blogspot.com/

The rest of the night is history. Here are some of the places "word aversion" took me. Hey, you can even put a name to this phenomenon now. By the way, it appears more females are tortured by the word moist than men. Note the meanings are not necessarily indicators of if a word is pleasing or atrocious.

The Moist Panties Phenomenon
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/%7Emyl/languagelog/archives/004835.html

Led to others...
http://www.theperfectworld.us/thread.php?id=940

http://southby06.blogspot.com/2006/07/elements-of-style.html

http://theraininmypurse.blogspot.com/2007/05/conjuring-gross-and-beautiful-things.html

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I leave you with a little meme of my own creation. Please take it and make it your own. Link me if you like it. I've no more time tonight to name names. Bed is calling.

5 words you love: Loquacious, Adore, Soliloquies, Blessing, Indubitably

5 words you loathe: Moist, Mucus, Gurgle, Breech, Globule

A word you use way too often: Maybe

A word you can't stand to hear mispronounced: Washington

A word that is new to you and its definition: Glossolalia- fabricated and unmeaningful speech