Letter from Iceland #62
The Little Book of Icelandic—Which is the prettiest of them all?
Blessuð!
The Icelanders love their language. They call it “the beloved and gentle”. They dedicate a special day to it each year. They are rigorous about making up new words whenever a new thing or concept enters the lexicon. And every now and again they run polls to vote on which word in Icelandic is the most beautiful.
Today’s Little Book of Icelandic* post is all about that. Further: in this particular poll of which I tell, they decided to split the words into age groups to determine which age group found which words the most beautiful.
The results, it has to be said, are delightful.
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