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Fun:Four Letter Words
Four Letter Words in English are those that, due to their referents and easy pronouncability, are shunned by prudes, prigs and politicians (in public).
A short list will make it obvious to the reader why these words are usually considered taboo:
- Host
- Once
- Trap
- Acne
- Note
- Dash
- Work
- Easy
- Trip
- Bork
- Undo
- Tick
- Tock
- Suck
- Earn
- Xenu
- Rope
- Ouch
- Cusp
- Kite
- Skit
- !Kung
It should be noted that "four" and "word" are four letter words, as is "goat".
As a point of curiosity, there are 456,976 possible combinations of four letters, so even excluding the impossible ones gives a lot of room for play.