Usually when I post a word here, it's because I've run across it (again) in my reading. This morning while reading blogs by friends, "mellifluous" popped into my head for no discernible reason. It simply sounded good to me. Or maybe I was reading a mellifluous post and it was the most appropriate word.
"the dulcet tones of the cello"
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I'd like to put this word at the end of Mary Poppins Supercalafragalisitic... etc.
It's been almost a year and a half since I posted this word, yet I haven't run across "mellifluous" until this past week, while re-reading Gail Godwin's novel Father Melancholy's Daughter:
"Adrian Bonner's words, though spoken in his terse accent, were as mellifluous and soothing to me as if he had been reciting some charming old neglected poem that had once enthralled me before I grew more critical and began to pick holes in it" (p, 209).
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