Auli'i Cravalho Quotes

Take a simple name like Nicholas: you can rhyme it with ridiculous. If you aren't too meticulous. You know, every word's rhymable.

You know... when one speaks your name very fast, it just sounds like just incredible

You say 'erbs, and we say Herbs because there's a f*****g H in it!

It's pronounced 'Romaine', like the lettuce.

If you compulsively pun you are called a paronomasiac.

I had a really fantastic dialect coach that I worked very well with, and I was constantly surprised by the different intonations that the Russian dialect has.

I've always really enjoyed sounds and alliteration and funny words and funny melodies.

The name 'Amazon' was not originally Greek; linguists believe it derived from the ancient Iranian word for 'warrior.'

In Hebrew, the name Susan means 'graceful lily' - in Khmer, it means 'girl with the bad puns,' and in ancient Aztec, it translates as 'she with the cockerel hair and dirty glasses.'

The longest word in the world is "a word from our sponsor."

Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

Words. I had always loved them. I collected them, like I had collected pretty stones as a child. I liked to roll words over my tongue like a lump of molten honeycomb, savouring the sweetness, the crackle, the crunch.

He pinched the name tag and ran his fingers under the letters. "Can you read this, mate? It says C-H-A-R-O-N. Say it with me: CARE-ON." "Charon." "Amazing! Now: Mr. Charon." "Mr. Charon." "Well done.

I love words, I think they're fascinating and incredibly wonderful things and part of the joy of my work is that I not only get to work with music but also with words. Sometimes it's a difficult process but a lot of the time it's really fun.

The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.

At a lecture I am asked to pronounce my name three times. I try to be slow and emphatic, "Anaïs - Anaïs - Anaïs. You just say "Anna" and then add "ees," with the accent on the "ees."

I love words; I love the way they sound. Once I've worked on everything else, the last drafts of my books come down to how they sound.

So...your name means Mr.Underwear." -Frank

The Greek word for Christ is Kristos, which is, let's face it, Krishna, and Kristos is the same name actually.

My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial

There are people who study germs. I believe they are called Germans

Philologists, who chase A painting syllable through time and space Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's Ark.

If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Michelangelo and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka.

Obstreperous, ‘huh,” said Tad. “I see you’ve been using that Big Word of the Day calendar I got you last Christmas.” “That is irrefragable,” I told him solemnly.