Could YOU pull off saying the 58-letter name of this Welsh town with such calm self-assurance?

Could YOU pull off saying the 58-letter name of this Welsh town with such calm self-assurance? 2015-09-11T10:50:11-06:00

 

Llanfair RR station
A sign at the town’s railway station.
(Photograph by Raphael Frey, Wikimedia CC)
You’re free to enlarge the photo by clicking on it, but, please, don’t add any more consonants.

 

Have a look at this:

 

http://www.wimp.com/weather-man-impossible-city-name/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=video/

 

Incidentally, Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is Welsh for “Saint Mary’s Church in a hollow of white hazel near the swirling whirlpool of the church of Saint Tysilio with a red cave.”

 

That should help you to remember it.

 

(Thanks to Nicol Sorenson-Legakis for alerting me to this little item.)

 

 


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