English Language Patterns

The patterns I noticed about English language was that the majority of curse words/ taboo words were disliked. Also, the food related words were not disliked because of the actual food that they represent but the sound of the actual word or other things that the word reminded the person of, for example the word 'gravy' was disliked as it reminded someone of the word 'graves'. To investigate this, a list of food words which sound similar to other disliked words could be written and asked whether or not people like the words.