Attitudes towards English Language

In our first lesson of AS English Language we looked into peoples different attitudes towards English Language - specifically their liked and disliked words.
The information that we gathered shows that the most liked words among the class were adjectives. In fact there were only 2 adjectives that were disliked ( naïve and peng ).
On the other hand, words that the class most disliked were those that people change the meaning of, or use out of context. The most common examples were 'trust' 'sweat' 'like' and 'literally'. Explanations for disliking these words were that it was irritating when people use them in the wrong way, or if they are used too often.
To my surprise there were a number of people (half) that said they liked taboo words such as bell**d and cl**ge. The other half of taboo words that were disliked were c**t and sl*t - because of their negative connotative meanings.
Overall, it was found that there were more disliked words than liked words - possibly because people find it harder to think of a word that they like, than a word that they strongly dislike.

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