Wonderful World of Words

Tongue twisters. Remember them? How much wood would a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood? Or Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers?
Or Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" or especially "The Bells."
Words have such wonderful sounds. People with small vocabularies have no idea how rich the sounds of English are.
Some time back I started playing with goat tongue twisters. Yes, more goats.
One by one I have worked my way through the letters to Q writing quick stories, tongue twisters and alliterations on goat topics.
Q has me stumped. For now. I will sit down with the unabridged dictionary to leaf through all the Q entries until the topic appears in front of me.
Why should the sounds of words matter to a writer?
In any book words can help create the setting, the situation. Their sounds can make a reader hear the wind, the sea, the rise and fall of a carousel. They can add depth to a sentence. They can twist the meaning of a sentence through their connotations.
So often only picture book writers are urged to pay attention to their words. The rest of us are missing out by not doing the same.