Lovely English words
Posted on May 31st, 2012by Michelle
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Over at the Guardian’s Mind Your Language blog, they’re asking: What is the loveliest word in the English language?
Some suggestions include:
rococo
Closer to a classical sense of phonetic beauty, it’s as smooth and chubby as a cherub. And finally (those Bs and Ls again) …balalaika
A word as sensuous as a single malt. I never did get to kiss the boy in the corduroys but, if I had, I’m sure it would have been as lovely as “balalaika”. (Source: Guardian)
Commenters have suggested various other words, including lugubrious, butterfly, mellifluous, and kerfuffle. What’s do you think?