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:

1. Host
2. Once
3. Trap
4. Acne
5. Note
6. Dash
7. Work
8. Easy
9. Trip
10. Bork
11. Undo
12. Tick
13. Tock
14. Suck
15. Earn
16. Xenu
17. Rope
18. Ouch
19. Cusp
20. Kite
21. Skit
22. !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.