The m-word

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:35 PM -0400 10/25/07, Kate Daly wrote:
>As in the old nursery rhyme "One misty moisty morning"?
>
>And btw - speaking as a woman, and a feminist from way back at that,
>the idea of "moist" being offensive sounds pretty silly to me. I
>think the original poster's student was making snowballs for other
>people to throw.
>-Kate

Except that as we've now learned from the Language Log postings (not
to mention the existence of the "I HATE the word MOIST" facebook
group), she's hardly alone in this.

LH

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org