mmmmmmm they are beautiful lady true............... very soft lulling and satisfying on the tongue
I guess I have different favourites for different times. I love the energy of the word 'kaleidoscopic' ...others of the top of my head, beguiling, gentle, shine, transcend, enigma, iridescence, glissade....

Those words really do evoke a babbling brook or a stream dancing in the glittering sunlight Candi Apple....NICe image, thanks!

It *is* pretty sounding though.

I am soooooooo with you Candi......to me......the words "waterfall" bring up.....such....serene pleasure yet are also energetic.       Something about them....are so romantic in tone.....

what about dragonfly? I think it is beautiful :)

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Thanks for reminding me of that! That's the word I need for the introduction of my thesis!!

Also, delectable is delectable.

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What a coincidence, Sprocket, so happy that it means something to you. Are you working on your PhD thesis now? Good luck!! Delectable is a resplendent one Etiquette & Felicity & Halcyon

Amazing words, I think English is a beautiful language, and I've read somewhere that nearly 50 percent of words in modern English are originally from French. Not sure about how many words/phrases were coined by Chaucer and Shakespeare because I dont speak it, but there is no denying that those literary icons have made great efforts to enrich the languages we use. I really admire those of you who are able to handle 20 thousand words or greater.
Succulent, I have been eating pretty much fruit recently Saccharine, like wearing a saccharine smile? Aubade, the first word comes to my mind every day. Clement, I know the clement weather this year in where i live would spell trouble for northern parts of my country. SunbirdLackadaisical,also fond of "Shibboleth", both are beautiful-sounding words. Nuance, I tell you the chinese character for warm/warmness is sounds like Nuan, in third tone.

Such beautiful words, does the meaning of the word affect the loveliness of it for some, I wonder. Or is it true that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet?

Thank you Eva!! Although we are taught little about ancient European in history class, I think you are right. Both German and English belong to Germanic and IE language family. I learned that Anglo-Saxons were the 2nd set of invaders of England, these Germanic people left their language and govt, hope thats what you meant, and the Normans had been the fourth conquerors, they left castles, you know French was their official language, they enrich the vocabulary, so i think it SOMEWHAT explains many English words are French original. Thank you for the reminder. I must apologise to you, what I had read was nearly 125,000 out of 450,000 words in English vocabulary are coined & recorded during the last half-century. I'm somebody who is amazed by how the language and Englishmen are compatible with other cultures, beginning to wonder how much Catherine the Great envied Queen Victoria if was in contemporary with Her. Mosaic is a beautiful one too, may I ask, did you go to see the small towns built by the Romans when you was in England last time?