Yeah, I have a lot of words that I dislike because of their history of usage, like epithets as referred to above and "weenie" here. Lots of disphemisms for sex and body parts. But it's not the words themselves I dislike so much as the whole package of history of use. Which, actually is what the word is, of course. Except when talking about word aversions, people often claim it has nothing to do with meaning so I'm trying to play by the rules. Even though I think the rules are incorrect, because, really, otherwise it would be a remarkable coincidence that so many word aversions are for objects, actions and experiences that also spark aversions. Not a lot of people have aversions to "cat" (those stops are so harsh!) and "rainbow" (I have the way those two diphthongs.. uh... diverge from each other).
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Right. Back to work.