"Silver" has always been one of my favorite words. It looks, sounds, and feels at the same time smooth, sharp, cool, fluid, and strong.
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As a native Spanish speaker, I like English words with sound combinations that Spanish doesn't allow, for example, monosyllabic words that end with two or three consonants, such as mist, charm, shield and masked. I understand the appeal of fancier, scientific terms, but these are often borrowed from Greek and Latin and thus shared by most European languages, so there's nothing particularly interesting about their English version, in my opinion.
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I don't know if they're necessarily the prettiest, but I'm a big fan of words that FEEL like what they represent. Blood? Oh yeah; I can practically feel the word oozing. Muffin? Feels delightfully bread-like and fluffy. Blossom? Feels like it's blossoming. Boil? I can feel the word straining the life of what it touches. Boing? Bounciest word ever. Oh my goodness do I love the word Boing. This probably sounds crazy but hear me out.
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I know a lot of people hate the word moist, but I think it's just because they haven't heard the word mucilagenous (myoo-sil-ad-jin-us, meaning mucous-like). See? Moist doesn't sound so bad now, does it? I'm personally a fan of the word susurration. (Meaning: whisper or rustle. Usually used to describe the sound of breeze through long grass, or gentle movement of water)
5 months ago | 20
"Pulchritude" may have the biggest gap between meaning and sound.
5 months ago | 19
Ever since I started to learn English, I've always been drawn to words or maybe, sounds that were really unalike to those of my mother tongue (Spanish). These are some them, which I like to hear or to pronounce myself: forever, always, behind, dear, children, often, though, lullaby, umbrella, rather, grab, still, taste. On the other hand, the only words which I don't like so much are those which are pronounced entirely different from how they are written (but just because they are more difficult to learn!). By the way, Rob, thank you for your videos, I enjoy and learn so much from them, they are unique!
5 months ago | 7
A word I enjoy hearing is “kerfuffle.” A word I dislike is “rural” because I find it hard to say.
5 months ago | 34
My favourite word is serendipity, both to say, and the meaning.
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Soliloquy, camber, jovial, constellation; these all all pretty to hear i think, perhaps in part because of their meanings, as well as the sounds themselves
5 months ago | 28
Flesh is ugly it always makes me wince I like the sound of lost ethereal and allure I like the l sound followed by a soft vowel lust also sounds pretty despite its negative meanings it's hard to remove the semantics from words though I think it's easier if it's a foreign language e.g I love words like muchisimo poco and evidentemente in spanish
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This sounds like a game I once played with my erstwhile wife and another friend. We were trying to come up with baby names using words whose meanings conjured up unpleasant images, but that—absent of any meaning—had a nice sound to them. I won hands down with, “Placenta Latrine.” 🤭
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Pretty: Gyroscope, xylophone, Cosmonaut Ugly: Pustule, Bile, Smegma
5 months ago | 11
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Help me out with a video here. What are the ugliest and prettiest words in the English language?
UPDATE! Based on your replies, I have posted two polls on my community tab.
Most beautiful word: www.youtube.com/channel/UC4a9...
Ugliest word: youtube.com/post/Ugkxy-y_tx8xYdjA_XbsEKukM_quEabGO…
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