The most beautiful word in English is mother

British Council Poll To celebrate its 70th anniversary, the British Council compiled a list of the 70 most beautiful words in a survey of more than 42,000 people from 102 non-English speaking countries. About 7000 English students in the council's schools were quizzed directly; the rest responded to an on-line poll.

Filling out the top 10 were, in order: mother, passion, smile, love, eternity, fantastic, destiny, freedom, liberty and tranquillity