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Re: What's your favorite sounding word in any language?

From:Robert Jung <robertmjung@...>
Date:Saturday, December 20, 2003, 19:25
Hi all,


My favourite word in any language is, I think, the Hungarian word for "peanuts" (!):
fo[with trema]ldimogyoro[with acute] (*)
/f2ldimod_joro:/ (Sampa)

* i.e., the first <o> has two dots, the last <o> has a line

BTW, it's a mass noun, like English "corn" - it's not countable like our "peanuts" is.

--Robert

PS: Where did Hungarian get all those unrelated vowels: /O/, /a:/, /E/, /e:/? Why
not /a/ or /e/? Where did they go? (Or did they ever exist??)