9 Words That Sound Like Insults But Aren’t
Dickcissel Definition: a common migratory black-throated finch (Spiza americana of the family Cardinalidae) of the central U.S. Note: We could probably write an entire book about suggestive and/or rude-sounding common names for birds, including bustard, bushtit, and bogsucker. Some of these terms, as you would expect, evolved from words completely devoid of offensive connotations (bustard traces back to the Latin avis … Read more