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Originally Posted by em_adpi
My family and I have had this discussion before... "ointment" was the chosen 'we-loathe-it" term.
My aunt hates when people say "my bad". I said it once just to make her mad...  |
well there is a difference between words that you find tasteless/tacky and words that make you cringe. "ointment" just has an awful sound to it but doesnt really offend (unless youre only telling the story halfway
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but i know what you mean - my staff a couple of years ago couldnt do the word "moist" (it was from a list of words a staff member HATED and it stuck) and over time, we grew to dislike "donut" (we had a staff development meeting and some guy was making this horrible analogy involving a donut - he'd pronounce it doooooooe-nut, dragging out that first syllable - it was insane!)