In looking for material to post about SilkMuse's query about 'halitosis' I found a site with a very large number of posts about words and linguistics. Takes a good bit of browing to find them though. Most of it won't interest us. We have to dig:

http://www.emich.edu/~linguist/issues/5/5-67.html#3

To get to home of above URL:http://www.emich.edu/~linguist/issues/