The Cellar Door Schedule

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ISBN 0-8112-1157-6The remark is attributed to "a famous linguist" in the dialogue script of Donnie Darko (2001).

C.S.Lewis wrote in 1967 "I was astonished when someone first showed that by writing cellar door as Selladore one produces an enchanting proper name.".

the pleasant summer afternoon activity of sliding down cellar doors.

What could be more musical than your word cellar-door?"A story told by syndicated columnists Frank Colby in 1949 and L.M.Boyd in 1979 holds that "cellar door" was Edgar Allan Poe's favorite word, and that the refrain Nevermore in "The Raven" was chosen as "the closest word to 'cellar door' he could think of." This may derive from a 1914 essay by Alma Blount:Poe, who studied sound effects carefully, says that he chose "Nevermore" as the refrain for The Raven largely because the word contains the most sonorous vowel, o, and the most "producible" consonant, r.

An amusing story is told of an Italian lady who knew not a word of English, but who, when she heard the word cellar-door, was convinced that English must be a most musical language.

back in 1936 ". Richard Lederer in Crazy English claims that H.L.Mencken had claimed in a 1940s poll that "cellar door" had been favored by a student from China.In 1991, Jacques Barzun wrote:I discovered its illusory character when many years ago a Japanese friend with whom I often discussed literature told me that to him and some of his English-speaking friends the most beautiful word in our language was “cellardoor.” It was not beautiful to me and I wondered where its evocative power lay for the Japanese.

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