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Decoder Ring: The Mailbag Episode

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Why Does Everyone Hate the Word Moist?

In 2001, a professor at Mississippi State University asked students what words they thought were the most beautiful and most ugly in the English language. Moist hasn't looked back since. It showed up as a punchline on the TV show, How I Met Your Mother,. Linguists started to ponder it in blog posts. The Facebook group, I Hate the word moist, attracted thousands of members.

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