Syphillis...English's Most Beautiful Word?

I bet the only reason you are reading this is because of the eye-catching title. I would have been hooked at syphillis, too. Sounds like a new hit single, "You Had Me At Syphillis, Now I'll Always Remember You". I once had a teacher who used to preach the fact that the word "syphillis" was the most beautiful, fantastic word in the English language. He would say that the meaning itself was not exactly pretty, but look past that to THE WORD! He would then make us repeat it until we saw the brilliance in his opinion. "Just feel the way it rolls off the tongue". (It was at this point that my friends and I would start gagging and itching and pretending syphillis was in fact rolling off our tongues. What can I say, even high school needs to be entertaining). He didn't get our humor...kind of the same way we didn't get his odd phonetic obsession with syphillis. Too bad it's the only thing I remember about his class.