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Do you have a fascination with a word for its wonderful, silly, or strange sound? It can be in another languge than English (if it is, please translate it).
I think that the word "pumpkin" sounds odd.
Arabic "yimkin" (perhaps) is another odd sounding word to me.
In Urdu: Ghar (home) is an odd word. I don't like it at all.
I don't like the way the word "because" sounds, but I love writing it, because of the way the letters join together. It's all so round and level. I like to feel the shape of it in my mouth as I write it or read it, but not when it's spoken. *shrug* I do like the way it sounds in French, though: "parce que."
I also like the word "maybe." I like it in English, but I really like it in French, too: "peut-être." I like a lot of French words.
I like the words "hey" and "hay," because you have to smile in order to say them. :)
I have a particular liking for words with a short 'u' sound and a soft ending such as 'slush', 'sludge', 'plush', 'nudge'. They have a rubbery feel to my ears.
Plinth and flibbertigibbet are two of my favourites.
But it beats living in a "car"!Quote:
Originally Posted by Pensive
I like the sound of the word "lullaby", though I find it odd.
I like the sound od the word shoe. Go ahead say it 5 times fast, it's almost like whistling.
For some reason I really like Norway, or Norwegian. I'm not sure why but they just sound...right?...I'm not sure if that's the right word for it.
I can't think of any more words that I like the sound of, but I'll post them once I think of them.:D
One of my favorite sounding words is alba, Italian for "dawn," though it is also related to the Latin albus, meaning "white," (like the beard on a certain Harry Potter character who takes this as his first name). I think it can sometimes mean "white" in Italian too, but that's sort of a poetic use.
One of my favorite words is one of the most common, "but." It is a very powerful word. Observe it's use in sentences (and in cnversation) and see how it transforms meaning.
edit: I apologize, I didn't realize this thread was on word sound rather than meaning. I'll still leave the post in, although the homonym of "but" (butt) draws quite a different reaction. :D
But that's interesting!
What do you guys all think of "garbage"?
"thing"! Where is that magic pulled from? It's like a lexical parsnip!
And then there is "snooze"!
i like using the word 'flummoxed'
And the phrase "pretty please".. if the person sayin it makes it sound somethink like "pwetty pwease!!" the expressions accompanied to it... looks and sounds good!
"dance" has something to it.
So does "tower".
I always thought "castle" seemed like it sounded like it is shaped.
and twilight... sounds cute
posh is an interesting word I think, along with brackish and this is a French phrase I like espirt de les escalier, a direct translation is something like "wit of the stairway" but it refers to what you would have like to have said, but now it's too late! ;) :nod:
Words beginning with 'Thr-' have a certain something about them.
Thrush
Thrall
Throb
Thrum
Through
Especially if one rolls ones 'R's.
"Thing" sounds like a bizzare word to have formed.
"Thing"? I suppose so.
:p You'd love me, I use it constantly; to replace the words I forget when I'm talking. (Funny, when I'm typing, the words go straight from my brain to my fingers, I almost never forget one. But the second I open my mouth, I forget everything I ever learned.) Trying to understand me is like a game of fill-in-the-blanks: "So, I was wondering, when we put the... thing in the thing, do we have to still use the thing she told us to, or was that just for the other thing?" [Insert lots of vague, unhelpful hand gestures.]
Thing is a little dull and clunky sounding to my aged ears. Now if it were 'thring' instead that would add gravitas, length and a delightful sonorous sound to the word, like an old fashioned telephone ringing, and Emily's incomprehensible conversation would become a thring of great beauty. I vote we replace thing with thring immediately. All in agreement say Aye.
There's always "daffodil" to reckon with.
My siblings laugh every time they say the word "pure" --it just has an odd shape to it inside your mouth. Does that make sence.
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PURE!
Aye! That be a pure "aye" thring!
The English spelling of this Armenian word is something along the lines of "dagagh" (the "gh" at the end is a really guttural sound evoked from the back of the throat) and its translation is "coffin". It just has a very ominous tone for me which isn't surprising considering its meaning...
I think ELECTED sounds funny or ELECTRIC
im boring, so i love the way dichotomy sounds. And names like Vanessa, Ashleigh.
The word "crucial :" has got a nice ring to it.cool:
"Confluence"
It just sounds so beautiful.It rolls off the tongue.