Quoting Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>:
> Poe is said to have been partial to "cellar door".
He too? Tolkien's affection for that phrase is well-known.
> Myself, I think "Mogadishu" is just a very cool
> sounding word, although I'm not sure how it is
> actually pronounced in Somali.
I ceased to like that word once I learnt it's not [mONla'dISU]. No, don't ask
me how I managed to here it like that for months back in '91.
> In general I think Swahili (yes, I know it's not
> related to Somali) has some of the neatest word sounds
> in the world. What's your favorite sounding word?
Don't really know, actually. Words I spontaneously like the sound of tends to
contain dentals/alveolars, the vowels "e" and "a", and/or the sound "m".
Andreas