There's always someone who ruins it for the rest of us

[Patti (baconater)]

https://www.theguardian.com/books/201...

[Jim]

The problem is that accepting 'Brexit' and 'British' in the list is just as 'political' a decision as refusing to accept 'Islam' or 'Israel'

Yet is appears that the Dictionary had no problem with the first two but did with the second two

[Elizabeth]

For a dictionary, it appears to be suffering from a serious lack of defining skills.

[Will]

Well what did they expect? Asking the public for their least favourite word was always going to head in only one direction.

[Kath]

It's a lowest common denominator thing. People can't see this kind of thing without abusing it. Like Wordy McWordface, only that was funny.

[Will]

The silliest part of this is that the people who are suggesting swear words are probably being very honest. My least favourite word would be a swear word.

Moist, on the other hand, is a lovely word. Full of comic possibilities.

[Jim]

Will wrote: "The silliest part of this is that the people who are suggesting swear words are probably being very honest. My least favourite word would be a swear word.

Moist, on the other hand, is a lovely word..."

spot on. Indeed I'd suggest that part of what makes a swear word a swear word is that it's offensive and people won't like it.
But how can somebody have 'moist' as their least favorite word? All i can assume is they have had a very sheltered life

[Rosen]

Woah!

[Tim]

I like 'moist': more interesting than 'damp' . . .

[Anita]

Moist is good, damp sounds wimpy and all swear words are my least favourite but as I have never said or written any of them I wouldn't be posting them on any site. There is always the nasty element that spoils it for everyone else

[Darren]

Ask the public and it was always going to be Wordy McWordface.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Darren wrote: "Ask the public and it was always going to be Wordy McWordface."

But of course!