Words That Don’t Sound Nice Are Harder to Remember, Study Says

Swear words are loaded with those satisfying crunchy consonants like Ks and Ts and Gs that add a harsh, stabbing sound to words whose definitions are jagged to begin with. And yet, for as much as those words seem scientifically optimized and specifically engineered to stick and pierce and linger, new research from the University […] The post Words That Don’t Sound Nice Are Harder to Remember, Study Says appeared first on VICE.

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