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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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Date: 2016-08-28 11:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] diejacobsleiter.livejournal.com
No, today you can hear it only as "yes" or as "well" or "but" or rhythmical emphasizer but not as "and". But when children read old tales or literature stylized, they quite understand this "yes" meaning: "Zhili-byli (=once there lived)... ded da baba (= an old man and his wife)" . Sometimes on weddings you can hear the ancient wish to the young couple to live "in counsel (= agreement) and love", and in this formula there is "da": sovet da lubov'

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