Word: wheelbarrow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...language of the country in which they temporarily reside can curse in Italian without offending the most delicate native sense. It has been often demonstrated that the most musical word in the English language to foreigners is "cellar-door." In the same way, the hasty remarks of Italian wheelbarrow pushers and ditch-diggers smite the ear only as poetical rhapsodies in a foreign tongue...