Re: CHAT: Opperlands

> Just to throw my two cents into this, I'll tell you the
> name of a Welsh town I saw pictures of in a magazine here
> <breathes in>:
>
> Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
>
> which is supposed to mean, according these people,
>
> "The church of Mary in the hollow of the white hazel near
> the fierce whirlpool and the church of Tysilio by the red
> cave."
>
> Apparently the name was given by a local joke-teller, and
> it stuck.
>
>
> --Pablo Flores
What do people actually refer to the town as?  Llanfair?
I can imagine that the repeated use of the full name
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantsiliogogogoch
(I actually typed that, just for the hell of it :)
at a town meeting would become rather annoying rather quickly

JJS :-)