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Reply 160

*Hannah

Personally, I like 'arduous'. I don't know why :dontknow:

Philanthropy

Cellar Door only sounds nice because it sounds french, like it should be Celador.

Reply 163

rockrunride

Haven't considered English really but my favourite words in French are:

le
piéton
interdit
abîme

Reply 164

username549578

Original post by rockrunride

Haven't considered English really but my favourite words in French are:

le
piéton
interdit
abîme

What do those words mean (in english :biggrin:

eponymous

Original post by Lewroll

What do those words mean (in english :biggrin:

piéton = pedestrian
interdit = not allowed
abîme = gulf, gap, abyss

And le is le.

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Original post by rockrunride

piéton = pedestrian
interdit = not allowed
abîme = gulf, gap, abyss

And le is le.

hah they sound better in french :biggrin:

Indeed

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and I know it's not english, but I love the french word for dragonfly - libellule

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Reply 173

lonelykatana

Original post by Lewroll

According to the folks down at Dictionary.com, the most euphonious phrase in the english language is...
[INDENT]Cellar Door[/INDENT]
Yep, thats right cellar door. Say it out loud. Feel the words leave your lips. Feels nice doesnt it?
Now I was as suprised as I expect you are (unless youve read the article, in which case you wont be very surprised -_-). And I was wondering what TSRs favourite word/ phrase was. What do you think is the most beautiful word in the english language?

Got to be prune

Reply 174

linka1

I love this thread so much. I'm agreeing with cellar door although any word without harsh or 'cutting' pronounciation would work. Lots of the letter 'l' and 'e'.

like.... 'elementary' for example.

Reply 175

greeneyedgirl

I know this is slightly off topic, but since quite a few people have mentioned how the words we find beautiful are often foreign words, did you know that over the whole world, babies learn phonemes which are common to the majority of languages first (starting with vowels, then plosives, nasals and glides etc. etc.)

So perhaps there is something built into us all as humans which makes (irrespective of the language of the word) certain phonemes more attractive to us?

Reply 176

username549578

Original post by greeneyedgirl

So perhaps there is something built into us all as humans which makes (irrespective of the language of the word) certain phonemes more attractive to us?