In the early years of the 1980s, a compendium was published in the UK which featured a list of “the most beautiful words in the English language”. Included in this lexiconolgical cavalcade were such linguistic raptures as ‘butterfly’, ‘willow’, ‘gossamer’, ‘mellifluous’ and ‘golden’. Each word in the collection delicately addressing the ear as gently as it glided from the lips.