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Re: Have anyone visited Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch?
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rohnearner
on 25/04/2014, 11:15:07 UTC
Why would they even use a name this long?
Exactly!It is so confusing and hard to pronounce it ,i think that who ever name that village was crazy.It seams that the name has a meaning :
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch name means "Saint Mary's Church (Llanfair) in the clearing (pwll) white hazel (gwyngyll) next (goger) fast stream (y chwyrndrobwll) and St. Tysilio (llantysilio) red cave (gogogoch)."
If i may ask what language is it..?
Welsh language -spoken throughout Wales, in English border towns, and in the Chubut province of Argentina
http://www.wales.com/en/content/cms/english/about_wales/language/language.aspx
really quite fascinating..! I thought it was just random name but now after knowing that it has some meaning behind it makes more sense.