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Re: David P's "month" (was: Poll by Email No. 3)

From:Marcel Bollmann <bollmann@...>
Date:Tuesday, March 5, 2002, 17:52
On Tue, 5 Mar 2002 08:56:31 -0800, you wrote:

>The best word? I don't know! I know what sounds I >like, and so I would look for words that contained >those sounds. These include /f/ /s/ /S/ /Z/ /l/ /r/ >/w/ /T/ /m/ /n/, and maybe others I can't immediately >think of. As far as vowels, I have an affinity for
[snip] That's the catchword! To me, one of the most beautiful words has to be "affinity". However, I don't really know why - I usually don't like the /f/ sound that much. The literal german translation ("Affinität") sounds even better to me.
>, French "soleil",
My French vocabulary still is *very* limited, but from the words I've encountered so far, I somehow have an affinity <g> for "justement". (Nobody said we're only talking about nouns, mmh?!) - Marcel