How do you feel when you hear the words mucus, cyst and moist? How about ethereal, aurora and twilight? We all have certain words or phrases that make us react in different ways. Certain words can provoke positive feelings, while others may make our skin crawl. Chris Fitzpatrick looks at how phonaesthetics explains why some words are deemed beautiful and others, well, just give us the ick (like slushy) https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2025/0610/1517507-words-unpleasant-feelings-linguistics-phonaesthetics-euphony-cacophony/