A word for a word that's fun to say?

[Roger Shuy]

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> I like to say almost any Portuguese word that ends in -zinho/a.
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> I also like to say some words that sound more like what "butt" should
> sound like than "butt" does: Again, Portuguese "bundas" but also
> Polish "dupa."
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> Polish "fog" ("mgla") ("crossed l" with the phonetic value [w] also
> sounds like fog to me and is cool to say.
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> I also like to go around clicking; Xhosa "skunk" (iqaqa) is a favorite of
> mine.
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> dInIs
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>> One of my favorite words is <salvific>.
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>> Bethany
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Oh, and there's that wonderful phonetics class sentence: "Ed had edited it."
Roger

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