Re: CHAT: silly names

> >I'm told some place in New Zealand has an even longer name.
> >
> >Ray.
>
> Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupo
> kaiwhenuakitanatahu
>
> Translation: 'the place where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, who
> slid, climbed, and swallowed mountains, known as land eater, played his
> flute to his loved one.
>
This book also cites a name for a railway station near Barmouth, Gwynedd:

Gorsafawddachaidraigddanheddogleddollonpenrhynareurdraethceredigion of 67
letters but emphasises that this was a commercially motivated creation to be
placed on a station board.

It also states that Llanfairpwll...gogogoch was a name "used for the
reopened village railway station in Anglesey, Gwynedd ... was coined by a
local bard as a hoax. The official name consists of the first 20 letters."

Then again, there's the official name for Bangkok, capital of Thailand which
is a bit dubious:

krungthephphranamhanakhon bowonratanakosin mahintharayuthaya
mahadilokphiphobnovpharad radchataniburirom udomsantisug

Imperative