a miserable word?

[Kim & Rima McKinzey]

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>What the heck is a "miserable word," anyway? Is there a scale of misery for
>words, or is lexiocographical misery absolute?

Perhaps they have a group to go to -- Near us there's a Noah's Bagels
Support Group and I had no idea that bagels had issues prior to that.

Rima