Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Cellar Door

The phrase cellar door, according to J. R. R. Tolkien, is the most aesthetically pleasing to the human ear. It is a phrase which contains the perfect number of open syllables, consonant clusters, vowels, stops, and starts. Projecting one of the most "intrinsically" beautiful sounds, the phrase is, by far, above the rest in both writing and speech.