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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?
Carl at at 10:17PM, Apr 16th 2009.
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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.
Avram at at 05:16AM, Apr 17th 2009.
Joe Ingram-Gettins
Wales is a hole!
Joe Ingram-Gettins at at 03:22AM, Jun 18th 2009.
Heulwen
Hahaha I don't know what Avram has written but it's not pronounced like that! Lol!!
Heulwen at at 12:23PM, Aug 3rd 2009.
matter
Joe Ingram-Gettins what?!
matter at at 02:14AM, Aug 5th 2009.
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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
Avram at at 07:10PM, Aug 7th 2009.
tiny
Breathtaking!
tiny at at 07:20AM, Nov 16th 2009.
hey
Thats Like A 10Billion Time Hard Toung Twister . , Just Wow .
hey at 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???
kayla attfield at at 05:02PM, Jan 21st 2010.
Earl
The train station is actually in the village of the same name. The village is on a tiny island called Anglesey which is adjoined to the mainland by two separate bridges.
Earl at at 08:27PM, Apr 23rd 2011.
Mark
Wikipedia lists 28 One-letter place names. Ok, now what happens when these two places play each other in football and the cheerleaders yell the other teams names back and forth?
Mark at at 07:19PM, Jan 4th 2012.

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