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

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Wednesday, December 17, 2003, 18:54
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

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Chris Bates <christopher.bates@...>