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Re: CHAT: silly names

From:Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...>
Date:Friday, March 16, 2001, 6:42
At 12:52 pm -0800 15/3/01, Frank George Valoczy wrote:
>Hm...
[snip]
> >But then, there's Wales...how the hell does that one go? All I can >remember is Llanfairpwll...gogogoch, I can't remember the middle.
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch Usually written _LlanfairPG_ & pronounced /KanvaIrpidzi/ with fairly even stress on all four syllables. I'm told some place in New Zealand has an even longer name. Ray. ========================================= A mind which thinks at its own expense will always interfere with language. [J.G. Hamann 1760] =========================================

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Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...>
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