"moist" (again)

[Jonathan Lighter]

Truly incredible. Rationally inexplicable.

It "nauseates" them, even when applied to cakes!

Makes me want to use it more. And eat more cake.

JL

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:

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> _The Huffington Post_  weighs in on the opprobrium of the word "moist":
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> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/10/hate-moist-word-alternatives_n_2259254.html
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