Various friends from over on that side of the pond (the Alantic) tell me that the real name is much shorter, that the town changed the name to the above specifically as a gimmick to get into the Guinness Book.
"Llanfair-pwll-gwyngyll-gogerych wyrndrobwll-llantysilio-gogogoch" is Welsh for "St. Mary's Church in a hollow of the white hazel near to the rapid whirlpool and St. Tysil's Church of the red cave", which is a village near Bangor in North Wales.
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Joel K. 'Jay' Furr 26 February 2005 02:15:20 [ permanent link ]
Bryan S. Slick <onyx_hokie@yahoo.com> wrote in news:MPG.1c892b94f446372498c88a@news-40.giganews.com:
Various friends from over on that side of the pond (the Alantic) tell me > that the real name is much shorter, that the town changed the name to > the above specifically as a gimmick to get into the Guinness Book.
Yep, and last time I checked (a year or so ago) it'd been dropped in favor of the almost-as-long New Zealand locality that actually did bear a freakishly long name (in Maori).
