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

Andreas Johansson wrote:

>Quoting Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>:
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>>Poe is said to have been partial to "cellar door".
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>He too? Tolkien's affection for that phrase is well-known.
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>>Myself, I think "Mogadishu" is just a very cool
>>sounding word, although I'm not sure how it is
>>actually pronounced in Somali.
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>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.
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>>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?
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>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".
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You should love swahili then lol.... practically all the singular words
for people begin with m (there's a few in other gender classes).