Choose your words carefully

Yesterday when the ec team was considering cover tags for an upcoming issue of the magazine and generally acting silly, we began discussing a word I hate, slacks. It’s something about the s at the beginning and the end, because the word slack doesn’t bother me. But slacks? It’s just an icky word. Eww.

My friend Buddy hates the word moist. And most of us agree, it’s a kind of gross word. It looks and sounds exactly like what it means. And his dislike for it makes me want to use it all the more. 🙂

Anyway, my intense dislike for the word slacks sent me on a little journey of discovery. I started thinking about other words that kind of gross me out, many of which get discussed in my Life Group at church quite often. So here’s a few from my list. Feel free to add some of your own in the comments section!

• defecate (eww) • fecal • coagulation • congealed • heave (in the British sense of “it made me want to heave.”) • My bad. (yes, that’s a phrase, not a word, but for some reason that piece of slang annoys the heck out of me. Just say, “oops, my mistake. It’s my fault.” My bad means nothing. You can’t own a bad, especially when bad isn’t a noun.)