The world’s most HATED word is more predictable than you’d think

Aug 28, 2016

Whether it reads horribly, is difficult to pronounce or just invokes a feeling of indescribable horror, you don’t have to be a grammar Nazi to wholeheartedly despise a word.

And just in case you’ve never felt fully able to express your hatred of one particular piece of language, the good people at Oxford Dictionaries now have an official means through which people can denounce their least favourite words.

The #OneWordMap is a global campaign aimed at discovering the most hated word in the English language and so far the results are pretty much bang on.

According to Indy100, “moist” is currently the number one most hated word worldwide.

Other words which have already received the vote of doom vary from “no”, “like” and “stupid” to “Brexit”, “love” and “panties”.

The project – which has already received over 10,000 submissions from around the world – aims to gather information which will allow researchers to map the least popular words in the English language by country, age and gender.