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From: Elizabeth Vandiver <ev23@umail.umd.edu>
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Subject: Re: beautiful language (was: Of interest to some: new reprint ofNims' 
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Somewhere--maybe in his wonderful essay "On Fairy Stories"?--J.R.R.
Tolkien says the same thing. I've never been able to hear "cellar door"
as particularly beautiful myself (not even when pronounced with an
Oxford accent!), though as a young teenager I tried mightily, pietatis
causa, when I first read Tolkien's praise of it.  De gustibus...

EV

Sybilla001@aol.com wrote:
> 
> Some years ago a contestant on The $64,000 question was named Cellardoor
> (T?P?)Crockett.  Her mother had thought it the most beautiful word in the
> English Language just like Joan Rivers.
> 
> D.Lange
.