{"id":9470,"date":"2015-09-10T09:12:24","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T16:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/?p=9470"},"modified":"2015-09-10T09:22:30","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T16:22:30","slug":"weatherman-pronounces-llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwlll%c2%adlantysiliogogogoch-without-missing-a-beat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/2015\/09\/10\/weatherman-pronounces-llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwlll%c2%adlantysiliogogogoch-without-missing-a-beat\/","title":{"rendered":"Weatherman Pronounces Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwlll\u00adlantysiliogogogoch Without Missing a Beat!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Try saying THIS three times fast!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/b\/bd\/Cy-Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch_%28Welsh_pronunciation%2C_recorded_17-05-2012%29.ogg\">Llanfair\u00adpwllgwyngyll\u00adgogery\u00adchwyrn\u00addrobwll\u00adllan\u00adtysilio\u00adgogo\u00adgoch<\/a>!!<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/b\/bd\/Cy-Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch_%28Welsh_pronunciation%2C_recorded_17-05-2012%29.ogg\">Llanfair\u00adpwllgwyngyll\u00adgogery\u00adchwyrn\u00addrobwll\u00adllan\u00adtysilio\u00adgogo\u00adgoch<\/a>!!<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/b\/bd\/Cy-Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch_%28Welsh_pronunciation%2C_recorded_17-05-2012%29.ogg\">Llanfair\u00adpwllgwyngyll\u00adgogery\u00adchwyrn\u00addrobwll\u00adllan\u00adtysilio\u00adgogo\u00adgoch<\/a>!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Amazingly, there is at least one person in the world who can say the long name of the Welsh community, Llanfair\u00adpwllgwyngyll\u00adgogery\u00adchwyrn\u00addrobwll\u00adllan\u00adtysilio\u00adgogo\u00adgoch, with ease.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s <em>58 characters long<\/em> but <strong>Llanfair\u00adpwllgwyngyll\u00adgogery\u00adchwyrn\u00addrobwll\u00adllan\u00adtysilio\u00adgogo\u00adgoch<\/strong> just rolls off Channel 4 News weatherman <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/liamdutton\" target=\"_blank\">Liam Dutton<\/a>&#8216;s tongue!! No Biggie!<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class='flex-video widescreen'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Liam Dutton nails pronouncing Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fHxO0UdpoxM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>(Easy for him to say&#8230;!)<\/p>\n<p>Llanfair\u00adpwllgwyngyll\u00adgogery\u00adchwyrn\u00addrobwll\u00adllan\u00adtysilio\u00adgogo\u00adgoch is the longest place name in Europe, created in the 1860s as a promotion to have the longest name of any railway station in Britain.<\/p>\n<p>If you visit it these days, be sure to pick up a postcard and get it&#8217;s cool swirly postmark!!<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch_Postmark.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"389\" height=\"454\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9471\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch_Postmark.jpg\" alt=\"Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch_Postmark\" \/><\/a>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>It translates to: &#8220;Saint Mary&#8217;s Church in the hollow of the white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the Church of St. Tysilio of the red cave.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neatorama.com\/2015\/09\/09\/weatherman-nails-the-longest-place-name-in-europe\" target=\"_blank\">Neatorama<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Llanfairpwllgwyngyll#\/media\/File:Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch-railway-station-sign-2011-09-21-GR2_1837a.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"432\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9476\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch-railway-station-sign-2011-09-21-GR2_1837a.jpg\" alt=\"Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch-railway-station-sign-2011-09-21-GR2_1837a\" \/><\/a>\n<p>p.s.<em> Zyzzybalubah!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Try saying THIS three times fast!! Llanfair\u00adpwllgwyngyll\u00adgogery\u00adchwyrn\u00addrobwll\u00adllan\u00adtysilio\u00adgogo\u00adgoch!! Llanfair\u00adpwllgwyngyll\u00adgogery\u00adchwyrn\u00addrobwll\u00adllan\u00adtysilio\u00adgogo\u00adgoch!! Llanfair\u00adpwllgwyngyll\u00adgogery\u00adchwyrn\u00addrobwll\u00adllan\u00adtysilio\u00adgogo\u00adgoch!! Amazingly, there is at least one person in the world who can say the long name of the Welsh community, Llanfair\u00adpwllgwyngyll\u00adgogery\u00adchwyrn\u00addrobwll\u00adllan\u00adtysilio\u00adgogo\u00adgoch, with ease. It&#8217;s 58 characters long but Llanfair\u00adpwllgwyngyll\u00adgogery\u00adchwyrn\u00addrobwll\u00adllan\u00adtysilio\u00adgogo\u00adgoch just rolls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16,9,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awesome","category-cool","category-fun","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9483,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9470\/revisions\/9483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}