{"id":1497,"date":"2012-05-31T11:51:05","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T11:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=1497"},"modified":"2012-05-27T11:53:07","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T11:53:07","slug":"lovely-english-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/31\/lovely-english-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovely English words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the Guardian\u2019s <em>Mind Your Language<\/em> blog, they\u2019re asking: What is the loveliest word in the English language?<\/p>\n<p>Some suggestions include:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>rococo<\/strong><br \/>\nCloser to a classical sense of phonetic beauty, it&#8217;s as smooth and chubby as a cherub. And finally (those Bs and Ls again) \u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>balalaika<\/strong><br \/>\nA word as sensuous as a single malt. I never did get to kiss the boy in the corduroys but, if I had, I&#8217;m sure it would have been as lovely as &#8220;balalaika&#8221;. (Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/mind-your-language\/2012\/may\/25\/mind-your-language-loveliest-word\">Guardian<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Commenters have suggested various other words, including <strong>lugubrious<\/strong>, <strong>butterfly<\/strong>, <strong>mellifluous<\/strong>, and <strong>kerfuffle<\/strong>. What\u2019s do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the Guardian\u2019s Mind Your Language blog, they\u2019re asking: What is the loveliest word in the English language? Some suggestions include: rococo Closer to a classical sense of phonetic beauty, it&#8217;s as smooth and chubby as a cherub. And finally (those Bs and Ls again) \u2026 balalaika A word as sensuous as a single [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,3,44],"tags":[527,40,25,44],"class_list":["post-1497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-english","category-words","tag-english-words","tag-language-acquisition","tag-languages","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1497"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1499,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions\/1499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}