Cellar Door (minicast) - 19 July 2010

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🗓️ 20 July 2010

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The Most Beautiful Words in the English Language: "Cellar Door"?It's been said that the most beautiful combination of words in English is "cellar door." But why? By the way, after this caller raised the question, Grant did even more digging on the topic. The result: He wrote a whole article about it that appeared in The New York Times. http://nyti.ms/bkqwpg--A Way with Words is funded by its listeners: http://waywordradio.org/donateGet your language question answered on the air! Call or write with your questions at any time:Email: [email protected]: United States and Canada toll-free (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673London +44 20 7193 2113Mexico City +52 55 8421 9771Donate: http://waywordradio.org/donateSite: http://waywordradio.org/Podcast: http://waywordradio.org/podcast/Forums: http://waywordradio.org/discussion/Newsletter: http://waywordradio.org/newsletter/Twitter: http://twitter.com/wayword/Skype: skype://waywordradio Copyright 2010, Wayword LLC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:51.2	I'm Martha Barnett. What are the two most beautiful words in the English
0:55.9	language? I'm serious. Go ahead, think about it for a moment and I'm not talking
1:00.4	about the meaning of the words. I'm talking about their sound. What to you are the most sensuous,
1:07.6	malefluis, easy on the ears, two words you can think of. Recently a listener named Brady called us from Seattle to talk about this.
1:17.0	He'd just seen a film in which this question is discussed,
1:20.0	and one of the characters has an answer that's pretty surprising.
1:24.0	I was wondering in the movie Donnie Darko,
1:28.0	Drew Barrymore mentions that the word cellar door
1:32.0	are the most beautiful words ever written or ever said I forget
1:35.4	the actual line but I was just wondering why cellar door is so significant as of all the other words that are out there.
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