Delicious Words

What is your favorite word to say? Which words when spoken do you experience as delicious? Joseph Bottum of The Weekly Standard has deemed these words, words that feel right when you say them, as Agenbites. His list of these words include: thwart, pickle, fluffy, gloomy, portly, and curmudgeon. These are words that he describes as having

"...sounds that loop back on themselves to close the circle of meaning. They're perfect, in their way. They're what all language wants to be when it grows up."

Read Joseph Bottum's article Agenbites published online at The Weekly Standard:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=15094

Listen to an interview with Joseph Bottum on The Brian Lehrer Show.