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Say it aloud several times, it is really pretty in American.
How does it sound with English, Aussie, Zild accent?
um... wow... *everything* sounds nice in an english or aussie accent [swooning emoticon]
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Someone, sometime, somewhere said the most euphonious phrase in English is "cellar door."
Euphonious is not a word many would use to describe "Zild", but for me, "the cheque's in the mail" is even more euphonious than "cellar door."
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Hi guys, I've been away awhile and I see that this thread has moved off of the "F" word, BUT I can't resist. I am a volunteer firefighter and one morning at a fire scene,(about 4:00 AM), when a piece of equipment broke, I heard the best use of the word F*ck that I have ever come across and I challenge you guys to top this one! The firefighter in question said, and this IS a direct quote: "The fuckin' fucker is fucked!" It absolutely said it all!
Cheers!
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Poster: Max Quordlepleen : for me, "the cheque's in the mail" is even more euphonious than "cellar door." For me, the check is in the mail causes a sinking sensation in the abdominal regions.  wow
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Wow, I recall hearing that same factoid, with the addition in one version that a non-English speaking immigrant couple named their daughter "Cellardoor" because they liked the sound.
On a related note, when I was very small I named one of my dolls "Kerosene." My parents thought it was hilarious, but I like the sound of the word.
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There's a nightclub in Washington, DC called The Cellar Door. It was supposedley named for the phrase's aforementioned euphonia.
Euphonia? Euphonic characteristics? 'Cuz it sounded good? You get the picture.
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Doug:
OHMIGAWD. The memories THAT brings back. The Cellar Door was (perhaps still is) a place in Georgetown where we newly-graduated 18-year-olds went to have our first legal beer. It was literally in the basement of a building, and was the place where many a musical career got started. I saw PP&M there before they became world famous. Same for Aretha Franklin.
I always assumed it was named Cellar Door because it was in a cellar.
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Doll named Kerosene
This is a true story, so help me God. When my wife was in nurse's training and doing her rotation thru OB/GYN, she met a new mother, a primipara (there's glory for you!), who named one of her twin girls Siphyllis (accent on 2nd syllable) because she thought it sounded so beautiful. The other? Gonnoriya, of course.
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who named one of her twin girls Siphyllis (accent on 2nd syllable) because she thought it sounded so beautiful. The other? Gonnoriya, of courseI could forgive the names, but not the spelling. Clap! Clap! 
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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