There are beings who, in life, are unlucky. Well, it is the same for words. By that I mean that there are terms whose pronunciation displeases us: for their misfortune, we find that they sound “badly”, without we can always justify our appreciation. But quite theorized. Let’s go to practice with this little ride of our Lexicographic Turkish heads.
For example, imagine that your son gets married. This is a happy event in the first approach, except that you will have to qualify his wife who, now, has entered your family. However, there are few who will say spontaneously: “Here is my rude“. Why? Because” Bruss “, that’s ugly, a point that’s all! It is true that, for this funny term, things have been badly moved from the start. It was indeed introduced in Latin late Latin by the Goths, in the third century AD, in the form brutis (brutis ! When I tell you that there are words born under a bad star …) by supplanting the original Latin term, nurus. Result ? “Daughter-in-law”, yes; But “Bru”, no. It may be unfair, but it’s like that.
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In her misfortune, our poor “bruise” can always console herself by noting that she is not the only one to pay the costs of the whims of our ears. Because there are many more or less sacrificed terms on the altar of “property”, especially when their meaning is little known to us. Moreover, this explains that: when a word bothers us, we leave it aside and, by dint of remaining unpacked, it ends up being forgotten. See “mint“(slap); see”ergastule“(Duchot, in Roman Antiquity); see again”smaragdin“, whose definition is however no longer delicate:” of an emerald green “. Well, no, decidedly,” MORNIFLE “,” Ergastula “or” Smaragdin “, it is simply not possible.
Same punishment for terms linked to a off -putting universe, whether it be the disease, dirt or secretions of the body. “”Expectorate” (spit) ? “Remitch“(Unpleasant odor of mold, withdrawn)?”Wart“(Who has warts or who is covered with them)?”Mucous“(viscous rejection of the mucous membranes)? Beurk, yuck and re-beurk! And yet, notice it,” mucous “differs from a single letter of terms like” glory “or” please “. In peace.
There are other words whose only wrong is to cause disturbing associations. In itself, they have nothing updated; But their consonance arouses disorderly – and often brown thoughts in our brain, let us recognize it. Here is a non -exhaustive list knowing that, in terms of sensitive souls, I only give you definitions, but you make you thanks to licensee references:
– Cenobite : Religious who lives in community (note that his opposite, anchoret – religious who withdrew in solitude – absolutely does not suffer from the same stigma).
– Concupiscent : ardent sexual desire.
– Eburnean : which has the appearance of ivory.
– Nyctalope : Faculty to see well during the night.
– Obituar : relating to death.
– Put : assess indirectly, by a calculation.
Let’s finish this little tour of the unloved of the French language with the words that combine the handicaps: not only are they as euphonic as a chalk shouting on a painting, but, moreover, they designate a repulsive reality. I am thinking in particular of “lice“(dirty, villain, malpropre) and at”sterord“(which grows and lives on the excrement), whose future seems as radiant as that of the minitel.
Have you ever encountered them until then? Precisely: this is the irrefutable proof of their ugliness! Finally, well, of course, I am not quite sure what I advance, but I assume it.
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That his aüros los boys than an (mias) visas
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