Martha Barnette

So they refer to these mixed drinks as cocktails.

Well, I'm struck, of course, by your voice.

It's mellifluous.

And by that, I mean it's beautiful.

It's got this beautiful sound to it.

And we use the word mellifluous to describe something that's sweet sounding or just beautiful.

And it turns out that the word mellifluous comes from two Latin words that literally mean flowing with honey, the mell in mellifluous.

comes from the word for honey that you also see in the French word for honey and the Spanish word for honey.

All these languages are connected.

And then the fluis in mellifluous has to do with flowing.

It's a relative of fluent and flowing.

Well, yeah, that's one of those single words that has a big meaning.

I mean, you could say, instead of anthropomorphism, you could say...

applying human qualities to something else, like an animal or something, right?

But we have these handy words in English that come from Greek and Latin that you hear, for example, in medicine as well, all these really long words.

But

You're talking about the actual pronunciation of the word, right?

Not like reading it in.

Yeah, I can understand that.

Yeah, I had the same experience reading my audio book.