I don’t know how it came up, but for some reason our daughter found a reason to tell her mother on the phone that she doesn’t like the word “flab.” Not that she doesn’t like flab itself (which may or may not be the case); she doesn’t like the word—something about the sound being too much like the thing itself. “Another word I don’t like is ‘moist,'” she said. She had mentioned that to a friend, and the friend said, “I totally agree.” Then she added one of her own: crusty. And our daughter totally agreed.
As for me, I don’t like the word “totally.”
