No, I did not sleep on the keyboard while writing the title of this article if you thought about it!
It reminds me of some commenting on the soundtrack of the amazing film "Interstellar". There are those who say that Hans Zimmer would fall asleep at times while his music composed of the film and the result is those long passages that may sound to the listeners like a car horn sprinting endlessly. Of course this is a joke, although those sections are a bit too long already when you listen to them at night. It only takes a genius like Zimmer to transform these long boring tones anywhere else into those touches and subtle blows ...
Let us return to the title of this article.
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyllllantysiliogogogoch is the name of a small town in Northern Wales of the United Kingdom; and as you can expect, it is the longest name of a city in whole Europe with 58 written and connected characters! It would not be very useful here to know that the double letters "ch" and "ll" are pronounced as one letter in the Welsh dialect, which reduces the length of the name to 51 characters !
The residents of the village chose a well-known name that could be used as publicity for the town and its landmarks at the same time! So they chose the name of Lanverbolgwangelgorychrundruppellantisilogogooguch to also boast that it was the longest name for a train station in Great Britain.
The name is impossible to pronounce it, isn't it ?! Not with the presenter of the British weather forecast Liam Dutton who has the worst nightmares of any presenter: The town of Lanverbollgwangelgorychuendrundwillantiselogoguachch face to face!
But, to the astonishment of millions of listeners on the air and millions of other viewers later on, he uttered the impossible name with all serenity and peace and then continued the news!
Can you pronounce it? About myself, when I tried to read the name I felt a quick poke in the heart! You don't have to take the risk again, so do not strain yourselves to pronounce the name !
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