Stephenson Family Ties

Lexicographer Wilfred Funk declared these the 10 most beautiful words in English:

• chimes
• dawn
• golden
• hush
• lullaby
• luminous
• melody
• mist
• murmuring
• tranquil

Playwright Edward Sheldon declared these the ugliest:

• funeral parlor
• galluses
• housewife
• intelligentsia

Charles V said, “We should speak Spanish with the gods, Italian with our lover, French with our friend, German with soldiers, English with geese, Hungarian with horses, and Bohemian with the devil.”

What words do you find more beautiful than the ones listed above? I think there may be many!!

artist: Fiep Westendorp