A moist British "no" to Brexit

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"Moist" is the early front-runner in a search to find the most-hated word in the English language. The word has topped polls in the UK, US and Canada, according to those behind the global survey. It is joined by "no", "Brexit" and "British" as the UK's four most-despised words.

"No" is least popular in the early running in the Netherlands and Germany, while "love" and "sorry" find the least favour in India.

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[bluemeanybeany.livejournal.com]

There's this handy table

Clearly the Netherlands haven't watched enough Great British Bake Off yet to bump "moist" up into No.1

[topum.livejournal.com]

What an interesting table. I like the antonyms symmetry in the German top 4: no, love, hate, yes.

All English-speaking countries seem to share the hate towards "moist", "no" and "like" and everyone except Britain also to "hate". So Britain uniquely hates "Brexit" and "nice", the US - "stupid", Canada - "can't" and Australia - "panties". Interesting.

[darkoshi]

Oh, that's funny. I hate the word panties too, and I'm not Australian. But I can't believe such a simple word like "no" is among the least liked everywhere. And in Spain, even "yes"!?? I wonder what that is about.

Let's see, I'd suggest these words instead: slime, mold, lice, slug, lugubrious, lard, infestation.

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Indians are a bit surprising with "love" and "sorry". I have always found "titillate" puzzling.

[darkoshi]

Maybe they dislike sorry, as in not liking to have to apologize, or not liking people having disappointed them, or insincere apologies. I don't know why they dislike the word love though. One of our male Indian co-workers was named Love, so the word must not be universally disliked.