Is There a Synonym Avoidance?

Linguist Andrew Carstairs McCarthy says ransed eggs and adult butter are ill-formed. English has a variety of words meaning gone bad, but each is limited in the foods that it can be applied to. Linguists also think about cases where one word has pushed another out of its semantics.

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