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Re: CHAT: silly names

From:D Tse <exponent@...>
Date:Friday, March 16, 2001, 9:51
> >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