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    Beautiful-sounding words float like gossamer

    Mar 26, 2020 2 minutes
    Source: Staff

    Some languages have beautiful words for “butterfly”: (French), (Spanish), (Italian). In German, it’s . Cinderella gets names fit for a princess in these languages, too: (French), (Italian), (Spanish). In German, she’s . I heard these examples recently in a series of viral videos:

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