Words are funny things. I don’t just mean in the sense that ‘spelunking’, ‘quibble’ and ‘hodge-podge’ are all arrangements of letters that confer a particular meaning in English.
No, what I mean is, they’re intriguing in how personal they are. How idiosyncratic we are about how we use them – or like them to be used about us.
We all have a favourite swear …
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