Does anything sound as pleasing as “Cicada Brigade?”  There is a list compiled by the poet/writer/dictionary maker Robert Beard (yeah I don’t really know who he is either) of the 100 most beautiful words to say in the English language.  The list includes such wonderments as elixir, plethora, riparian, and vestigial.  Much to my personal lament nowhere was there a cicada or a brigade or a “Cicada Brigade” for that matter.