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

From:Chris Bates <christopher.bates@...>
Date:Thursday, December 18, 2003, 8:57
Andreas Johansson wrote:

>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 > > >
You should love swahili then lol.... practically all the singular words for people begin with m (there's a few in other gender classes).