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What's Weird In Wales?

Wales (country that is part of the United Kingdom), there is a village called Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (58 letters), which in English means "Saint Mary's Church in the hollow of white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the Church of Saint Tysilio near the red cave." The locals call it Llanfairpwll. Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.com is the longest single word .com domain name in the world.


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Carl
How do you pronounce that?
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Carl at 10:17PM, Apr 16th 2009.
Avram
According to Wikipedia:


The full name of the village is pronounced IPA: [ˌɬan.vair.puɬ.ˌɡwɪ̈n.ɡɪ̈ɬ.ɡo.ˌɡɛr.ə.ˌχwərn.ˌdro.buɬ.ˌɬan.tɪ̈.ˌsil.jo.ˌɡo.ɡo.ˈɡoːχ], or with [ɪ] for [ɪ̈], [pʊɬ, bʊɬ] for [puɬ, buɬ], depending on the speaker's accent.
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Avram at 05:16AM, Apr 17th 2009.
Joe Ingram-Gettins
Wales is a hole!
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Joe Ingram-Gettins at 03:22AM, Jun 18th 2009.
Heulwen
Hahaha I don't know what Avram has written but it's not pronounced like that! Lol!!
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Heulwen at 12:23PM, Aug 3rd 2009.
matter
Joe Ingram-Gettins what?!
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matter at 02:14AM, Aug 5th 2009.
Avram
Heulwen wrote: #
Hahaha I don't know what Avram has written but it's not pronounced like that! Lol!!


I've just copied pronunciation from Wikipedia: http://is.gd/273OJ
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Avram at 07:10PM, Aug 7th 2009.
tiny
Breathtaking!
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tiny at 07:20AM, Nov 16th 2009.
hey
Thats Like A 10Billion Time Hard Toung Twister . , Just Wow .
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hey at 10:16AM, Dec 3rd 2009.
kayla attfield
i thought that the longest word was a trian station not a villiage and that it was 49 letters long not 58 letters long???
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kayla attfield at 05:02PM, Jan 21st 2010.

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