Lexicographer Wilfred Funk declared these the 10 most beautiful words in English:

• chimes
• dawn
• golden
• hush
• lullaby
• luminous
• melody
• mist
• murmuring
• tranquil

Playwright Edward Sheldon declared these the ugliest:

• funeral parlor
• galluses
• housewife
• intelligentsia

Charles V said, “We should speak Spanish with the gods, Italian with our lover, French with our friend, German with soldiers, English with geese, Hungarian with horses, and Bohemian with the devil.”

See Euphony.