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In reply to the discussion: What words do you dislike? [View all]bluedigger
(17,085 posts)38. Funny how people are different like that.
CaliforniaPeggy uses it with reckless abandon, for instance.
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The "P" words (the five letter AND the eight-letter) that describe a vagina.
HughBeaumont
Apr 2012
#2
It's not the words so much as the pin-headed hosers that utter them that rub my fur the wrong way.
bluesbassman
Apr 2012
#17
"grow", when used as a transitive verb for anything other then plants/flowers, etc.
HERVEPA
Apr 2012
#18
Of all the words I hate, moist isnt one of them, in fact I lie the sound of moist.
snagglepuss
Apr 2012
#63
"Should" and "ought." I've had enough of those for the rest of my life, thank you very much. nt
raccoon
Apr 2012
#78