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

[Laurence Horn]

>But no one has cojme up with a wortd FOR such logoludica!

I hereby (tentatively) nominate "euphonym".

L

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>In a message dated 4/5/06 2:40:13 PM, preston at MSU.EDU writes:
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>>  So you're the guy who goes around saying "When
>>  Buttafucco pulled out his garbanzo a brouhaha
>>  ensued."
>>
>>  I knew we'd find out who you were.
>>
>>  dInIs
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>>  >A colleague asks:
>>  >
>>  >>  Is there a word that means ìa word, or combination of words, that is fun
>>  to
>>  >>  sayî or something similar?  Iím after words or word combos that are fun
>>  to
>>  >>  say, but arenít necessarily onomonopoetic.  Like ìbuttafuccoî or
>>  ìgarbanzoî
>>  >>  and ìbrouhaha.î
>>  >
>>  >I'm stumped. Does such a word exist, or should
>>  >it be added to the queue of neologisms we need?
>>  >
>>  >  -- James
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