This was a favorite of the greatest orator I ever had the honor to learn from, Richard Sodikow, Speech & Debate Coach, The Bronx HS of Science. When he said it, he demonstrated just how well it flowed like honey past his lips.
Wonderful etymology: "flowing with honey." The word can be used in that literal sense, but the "metaphorical" sense (e.g. to describe someone's voice or movement) just works really nicely.
I am not as mellifluous as Sir John Betjeman.
- Peter Reading, Opinions of the Press, from Fiction, 1979
Mellifluous means pleasing to the ear
See also grandiloquent/grandiloquence.
Mellifluous grandiloquence is something else altogether!
This was a favorite of the greatest orator I ever had the honor to learn from, Richard Sodikow, Speech & Debate Coach, The Bronx HS of Science. When he said it, he demonstrated just how well it flowed like honey past his lips.
Honey doesn't flow much and creamed honey doesn't flow at all.
smooth, sweet, feminine.
describing a language?
of greek origin(?)
Doesn't it just flow! Great word
mellifluous is such a great sounding word! ;-)
Wonderful etymology: "flowing with honey." The word can be used in that literal sense, but the "metaphorical" sense (e.g. to describe someone's voice or movement) just works really nicely.