DIRTY WORDS (WHICH AREN'T)

Ziggy, the husband of our grand niece Aron, overheard me use the word "macerate" and told Aron that he thought that I'd used a "dirty word". (CLICK HERE to see my BLOG article ZIGGY) After that incident he would beg for me to tell him some other words which sounded naughty but weren't. I told him "bobeche", "micturated", "frottage", "matriculate", and masticate".

I'm eager to hear his reaction when I send this week's e-mail from WORDSMITH (see here) which has a list of words which "sound dirty but are not":

HORTATORY
FORMICATE
ASSONANCE
INSPISSATE
COCKER

The comments following the article are delightful.