Comments by "Rob Fraser" (@krashd) on "Liam Dutton nails pronouncing Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch" video.

  1. There is a shortened version that is used in addresses.
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  2. The name is descriptive like you said, it's more of a "how to find us" than a name, and it was chosen to gain notoriety, the town was in a bad way at the time and wanted a gimmick to bring in tourists and so they voted to change their name to a long-winded sentence about trees, whirlpools and a cave :) It looks weird but it's actually just a sentence in Welsh without the spaces.
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  3. Mmmmmm soup. I MEAN NOODLES!
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  4. Look up "Benedict Cumberpatch Penguins", he calls them something like Peng-wings.
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  5. In Welsh a double-L is a single letter, also there would be a space because the first two and the next two if the name included spaces as one double-L is the end of a word and the next double-L is the beginning of a word. The name is a sentence in Welsh that describes where the town is, but as a name the spaces are removed.
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  6. ...said the actress to the bishop.
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  7. Requires a few Scrabble boards to fit it all on :P
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  8. Indeed, in Welsh it's more of a sentence than a single word, it's a descriptive name like "The little town by the old black tree" or something.
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  9. In a foreign language if you aren't a Welsh speaker.
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