I love the name of the city in Georgia: Valdosta - that used to be my “peaceful center” word - just saying it made me happy.
I have five words I HATE and husband and I laugh that when we haunt each other from the great beyond, the key to knowing it’s really us will be these words. (FTR, **crawlspace **is one of them because of the John Wayne Gacy story. Ewww)
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Oh man, if my breeding days weren’t behind me, I’d be so tempted…
The whole Finnish language.
Watching the World Series years ago, my wife fell in love with the name of the Yankees’ catcher, Jorge Posada. She would say it repeatedly for several weeks during and after the series, at any time of the day, just because of the way it sounded. She also liked the name of a guy she used to work with, Enrique Benavente.
I love the word ‘vespers’ so of course the Bond girl in Casino Royale has a wonderful name: Vesper Lynd.
If someone just told me the name Santorini I would get an image in my mind not far off from the actual Mediterranean beauty of that paradise island. Another thing I love the sound of is Île-de-France, the state where Paris is located.
Also love the sound of the phrase Kyrie Eleison. My friend knows a girl named Kyrie; her parents must have felt the same way. Of course, they may not have realized that they named their daughter ‘lord’.
One more: I really like the Czech word for owl, sova.
It’s actually the vocative (direct address) form for kyrios, which is ‘Lord’ in the nominative. If I’m not mistaken, kyrie is also vocative for kyria, “Lady” in the sense of female for Lord. (And they remain the honorifics eaquivalent to “Mr.” and “Mrs.” in modern Greek.)
Those were the sweetest words spoken by a quite attractive woman at her place, on the first date : You seem kinda stressed, do you wanna have sex with me ?
J.R.R. Tolkien would agree – he created his High Elven language, Quenya, to sound like Finnish.
Great names out of Finland, too! One of the things I really enjoy about watching hockey is hearing some of the best names ever;
Kimmo Timonen
Tukka Rask
Jarko/ Tuomo Ruutu
Antero Niittymäki
Pekka Rinne
Antti Niemi
Mikka Kiprusoff
Vesa Toskala
Saku / Mikko Koivu
Teemu Selänne
Non-Finnish names that I enjoy are Chipchurra, Wisniewski and Tkatchuk. I also giggle when I hear “Bobby Ryan”
Pretty much any hockey game, I find some player’s name to repeat whenever I hear it, just because I love how it sounds.
[David Letterman circa 1980s] Joaquín Andújar and Bret Saberhagen: No I don’t have a joke. I just like saying their names. [/DL]
Doesn’t he also like Uma and Oprah?
I recently met some people from Rising Sun, Indiana. What a great name. I’ve always loved the sound of those two words together.
Before I really spoke any Portuguese, I loved to hear Brazilians talk because I loved to figure out how they pronounced words that were spelled the same way in Spanish. It sounds totally different, and I still love to hear it spoken.
Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila (ex- GreenBay Packer)
Francisco Scaramanga (man with the golden gun)
Ron Meshbescher (from Minneapolis lawfirm Meshbescher & Spence)
“I like Ron, he’s meshbescher friend”
Ooh I didn’t know that, thanks!
Maybe they’re Bob Marley fans? Hey mon, Kyrie Kyrie.
I play EVE Online with a bunch of furriners 
and I love the accents, and they seem to treat me like a mascot [or maybe a not so annoying kid sister, which tickles me :D]
I love dutch/german/russian accents. I would listen to them read off a laundry list
I like the word squid. Squid squid squid.
Smock is also a good word. I dare you to say it three times and not feel happier. Smock smock smock!
**boustrophedon **- going back and forth in alternate swaths when mowing a lawn, or, writing alternate lines of text backwards and forward.
karmadharaya - a word made up of a modifier and a noun, viz., blacksmith
My family and I went on vacation to upstate New York one year, to a place my dad called Lake Chautauqua. That’s how I thought it was said: with the word “lake” in front of it. And it just sounded so RIGHT to me.
I was so disappointed when I got there and found that it was actually Chautauqua Lake. Dammit, it should be the other way around!
I also like the French phrase “les escaliers” (“the stairs”). It just rolls off your tongue.
I actually have a lot more of these, but I can’t think of any more right now. I’ll probably post more later.
dont really know that it qualifies as a word but the band They Will Know Us By Our Trail Of Dead
just sounded really cool.