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It has a nice balance to it. Honestly, it reminds me of menomena. It's pretty close as well to being anemone backwords, now that I look at it...
I really enjoy anemone as a word, although I could care less about what it actually means.
You both reminded me to revisit that website. Thanks!
Maybe we have different conceptions of beauty -- which isn't that odd of an idea, since we are different people.
I see the two words you mentioned as spiny and callused, hard. It's the Cs, I think. They are fun to say, but I wouldn't call them beautiful myself.
Yes! A pleasure to utter. They make my mouth feel limber and adept. And they have a sort of word-identity about them too; they're very self-possessed words, words which know where they begin and end. Am I talking bollocks?
But...beautiful?
I prefer a spiky, surprising little word like octopi. Or staying in the ocean, orca.
It is a really good website. I had it bookmarked for the longest time and didn't return to it until I revived my Wordie interest a couple days ago.
I actually like all the liquid, lilting l sounds. Sycamore is nice too though.
I was just looking at that website yesterday; good isn't it?
Most of these words - the words commonly cited as being 'beautiful' - aren't so much to me. They seem to be predominantly soft sounds, l's, n's, gentle vowels. There's a preference for three or more syllables, and (gonorrhea and cuspidor nobly excepted) for inoffensive meanings. I think this all adds up to anodyne. From this list I'd give sycamore, cuspidor and pavement the thumbs-up; for the rest, blah.