when we were kids the magazine sat review asked famous folk their most beautiful words or phrases in the english tongue franklin p adams headed his list with “cellar door” many years later author ursula k leguin in her book the farthest shore named the island at the world’s end “selidor” she surely thought no one would make the connection but I did I did now for me the most beautiful word in the language is “listen” — just “listen” — then silence listen . . . silence listen . . . copyright 2009 Jacqueline Jackson See also
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