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Similarly, fine-feeling English-speaking visitors to the Locarno region will freeze with horror when they see the initials of the Ferrovie Autolinee Regionali Ticinesi--the Ticinese Regional Railways and Bus Services--brazenly displayed on the local buses, and I once heard an Australian murmur that he had never seen anything quite as big and blue as that in his own country.
The shiver is accompanied by a murmur: "The President's on his way downstairs."
Kirkcudbright (`Church of Cuthbert'), the name of a small former Scottish county and its main town, is pronounced “kir-KOO-bree”—which Brown reports is said by the natives with a “dove-like murmur.”
Is it to sit among mattresses of the dead,Bottles, pots, shoes and grass and murmur aptest eve ;Is it to hear the blatter of grackles and say Invisible priest ; is it to eject, to pullThe day to pieces and cry stanza my stone?
The problem is that the words selected— summer afternoon (Henry James), powwow, pulchritude, punctuate (Shirley Lord), Preposterous (Charles Krauthammer), delegate (Maxwell M. Raab)--often appeal because of personal association and not for euphony (unlike classics like murmur and smooth ).