Re: CHAT: Opperlands

Joshua Shinavier <Ajshinav@...> wrote:
> >
> > I once saw "Hottentottentantenattentatentdter" given for German.
> >
>
> You mean Hottentottentantenattentaeter?
>
> Hottentot (is that the English name?) - aunt - criminal ?
> Is this a South African  nanny gone bad, or what is this  :-)
>
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