Respellings
Respellings of "cellar door" have been made to preserve its purported phonoaesthetics while obscuring the semantics. Some respellings presume a non-rhotic accent and do not represent the R of "cellar". Some respellings may fail in accents lacking the horse–hoarse merger.
- Celador
- A television production company
- Cellador
- A power metal band. Also a character in A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin.
- Salador
- A city in Magician by Raymond E. Feist
- Selador
- A psychoanalyst in The Santaroga Barrier by Frank Herbert. Also a trainer of BDSM slaves in The Marketplace from The Marketplace series by Laura Antoniou.
- Selerdor
- A city in A World Out of Time by Larry Niven
- Selidor
- A remote island in Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea books.
- Sellador
- Columnist Maxine Martz in 1988 wrote about one Margaret Masters, who heard about "cellar door" at Drake University, and later named her baby sister "Sellador". Sellador Crocket appeared on Groucho Marx's television program, You Bet Your Life, in 1961 and recounted the story, including the "Rat Trap" reference. Also, Sellador is the name of the song performed by Swiss goth band Lacrimosa from the album Schattenspiel.
- Selladore
- The name of a "kind-hearted laundress" in Geyserland, a 1908 novel by Richard Hatfield. C. S. Lewis wrote in 1967 "I was astonished when someone first showed that by writing cellar door as Selladore one produces an enchanting proper name." Also a character in the underground comic Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer.
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