The Sound Of Words

A very funny Monty Python sketch about the sound of words - I do agree with Graham, some words really do sound woody, while some are more tinny (normally the nasty ones).
I love the sound of words, and often my favourite words are quite onomatopoeic. Even words like hypocrisy have an onomatopoeic quality about them - they do sound rather sly and nasty, don't they? Especially the sibilance at the end, it just makes you want to hiss the word, to spit it out. Wonderful.
The words I generally tend to like use sibilance in combination with long vowels, like thrust or thigh...they sound quite heavy too, due to the 'th' - and they often are 'naughty' (as Graham says, intercourse, very woody).

Of course not all of you share my love for these words (branch is another one...or inebriate. Heaven.), maybe you prefer the tinny ones? Whatever the preference, the sound of words is what makes me happy, and I always find it interesting to hear them in different accents and dialects (I love for example the northern vowel pronounciations).
I also always find a special joy in swearwords. My favourites are the very versatile f-word (it can be used as adjective, noun, verb...) and the lovely 'twat'. The person who I love to hear swearing most is Terry Hall, for some reason it just sounds brilliant, I could listen to it for ages. And Stephen Fry (there he is again), because with him you don't really notice it's swearing.

Well, I better stop here, before I offend anyone who doesn't like swearing. I love it - well, the sound of it.