👂Advanced English Listening Practice (with Luke / Luke's English Podcast)
English Like A Native Podcast
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What Are Your Favorite Words?
There's a whole school of linguistics devoted to understanding why certain words sound nice to us it's called phonesthetics. I read an article by David Crystal and in the article there was a matrix of criteria for what makes a word phonesthetically pleasing. Some of the words that came to mind for me were things like melody harmony mermoration even sleep and slumber restful slumber so as a parent of a young child just the word sleep is a wonderful word for me.
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