Blog Post: Words
A word that I absolutely hate is "quench." Just hearing the word said out loud by other people, me saying it myself or just seeing the way its spelled makes me uncomfortable. I think the first time I ever even knew it was a word was reading it on a package of Big League Chew. The word itself doesn't even sound like it should mean what it actually means (to relieve your thirst). "Quench" seems like a word that would mean that you're thirsty and NEED water not that you DON'T need water anymore. My family knows that I hate this word and uses it whenever they can just because I don't like it, which is to be expected I guess. Not very many words annoy me but this one drives me insane.
I totally agree with you about the way it sounds and how it's spelled. For me, the words "grind" and "moist" are the word equivalents of nails on a chalkboard. Whenever I see "moist" written on cake boxes I always shudder. I also agree that the word "quench" doesn't really sound like it should mean what it means, I think it's too ugly of a word to mean something relieving. Every Gatorade commercial makes me uncomfortable because it's a bunch of people sweating dramatically and makes the word seem even uglier.
ReplyDeleteI agree with this completely. It's one of those words that no matter how hard you may think about it, it still doesn't make any sense. I agree with Julia, that it sounds like too ugly of a word to mean something positive. To have that on the cover for gum, or anything for that matter, would only make me reconsider my choices of buying it! For me, words like this are "gurgle" and "ointment". I don't know why these bother me so much, as they don't seem to disturb anyone else, but I can't stand it.
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