Why Is There So Much Hate for the Word “Moist”?
lot of people don’t like the word “moist.” Several Facebook groups are dedicated to it, one with 3,000 likes, readers overwhelmingly it as the word to eliminate from the dictionary, and Jimmy Fallon sarcastically it for being the worst word in the English language. When you ask people why this might be, there is no shortage of armchair theory: that there’s something about the sounds involved, that it
