I heard once that some researchers did what they did best and conducted some research. (Hey, maybe it was for someone's ETSU Honors Thesis. That's the only reason I can think for conducting this study.) They asked non-English speakers to rate certain English words according to how pleasant they sounded. So just what is the most pleasant word in the English language? [I'll tell you later]
Well, it is certainly not "blog." Think of all the unpleasant things that sound like "blog." There's "bog," a perilous swampy marsh, full of evil smells. "Fog" is close as well, though fog can be a lovely, bewitching thing on a cold fall morning; however, I am thinking now of a bog's fog, which would be thickly yellow and putrid with the smell of decaying bog matter. Not too pleasant. Let's not forget "smog" which "clogs" our air. And how many of us have had to "slog" through a tough semester at school? Yes, "blog" is an ugly word.
Celery.
Celery is supposed to be the most beautiful word in the English language.
Isn't that pitiful?
Or is it more pitiful that I actually spent all this time writing about it? Or that you spent this time reading it?
So let's all go do something productive.
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