Wednesday, 20 February 2008

Tongue Twister

I was reading the Wales section of our Great Britain guidebook to see what interesting places we could visit when I came across this Welsh tongue twister. Try pronouncing this 58 alphabet killer of a word:

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

I'm serious. That's a word!

Anyway it's so long even the Welsh have cut it short in day-to-day use to just Llanfair PG or Llanfairpwll.

I am left with one thought...the Welsh must be really good at spelling.

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