A small fraction of the US population reports feeling "grossed out" by the word "moist." It seems to be a mouth-feel reaction.

Ron Draney said: Ahem. Change of subject to another part of the episode. I can understand well why a musician would rankle at someone using "c...

Apropos of pannas, scrapple, and other such peasant food designed to use everything in the pig including the oink ... I lived in Cincinnati for a ...

Ron Draney said: Of course, anyone who's ever programmed on a mainframe computer is familiar with IBM's unintentionally humorous "This page intent...

That guy who is the sweetie of the married lady? What to call him? One possibility is "fancy man," though it has other connotations. I've heard...

And then we have words like “ausgezeichnet”. No one would be fooled into believing this word was English if they saw it. It doesn't look...

Wordsmith said: The construction just seems too African not to mean something in some language (other than Gullah). I got involved in a very...

George Lakoff, yes. Wendell Berry's essays in "Standing by Words" The wonderful Canadian Magazines "Adbusters" and "This Magazine". The NCTE "D...

Yeah - me too. I've worked on some Wikipedia pages, and know how off-base they can be at times. This one has some good attributions. As you sai...