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The Ultimate List Of 369 Beautiful Words

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Barrie Davenport

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What makes a word beautiful? Is it the sound of the word or its meaning? The study of the pleasantness or unpleasantness of the way words and phrases sound (regardless of their meaning) is called phonaesthetics. But I think the combination of sound and meaning is what makes for pretty words. Consider the word “diarrhea” which ...
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