Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

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Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is a word made famous when it sponatenously appeared as a sequence of unused letters across many (unfruitful, one might add) rounds of the popular TV gameshow Countdown. Upon noticing it, the show's host Twice Nightly Whiteley suggested, with characteristic jocularity, that this might be a great name for a village in Deepest Darkest Atlantis.

It is not known whether any local authority has made good on his suggestion, as no bugger can spell the bloody word correctly, let alone be bothered to make a road sign big enough to fit it all in.

For those without comedic tastes, the so-called experts at Wikipedia have an article about Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.

1 Origin
2 Meaning
3 Pronunciation
4 See also

[edit] Origin

I blame Wales. A name this long is too unwieldy for any human, but a whale's leviathian tongue could be wrapped around a word of this size quite easily.

This name is likely to have been shortened from an even longer Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooglech.

[edit] Meaning

Linguists specialising in Ancient Atlantean have since claimed that "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch" translates roughly to "All your base are belong to us".

Other suggested translations have included "I am a stupid English person who will spend all his money at the Pringle Mill whilst the locals rob my car and sacrifice my wife" and "Don't these English know the locals call it Llanfair PG"

However, if one uses an obscure dialect of Esperanto that was based on Nor'west Norwegian which was derived from a geeky type of Greek that was derived from Ancient Chinese which was derived from Eeeeeeegyptian, the translation comes out to be "The language used in this name is an obscure dialect of Welsh based on a particular version of Scandinavian derived from a version of Greek which evolved from ancient Chinese that had morphed from Eeeeeeegyptian, and Eeeeeeegyptian does have 7 e's" sparking speculation that this may be the only town left that has inhabitants whose native tongue is this particular version of Esperanto (and I don't need to go through all those details).

[edit] Pronunciation

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch contains the two ancient Welsh letters Ll and Ch. Ll is pronounced by pushing one's tongue as far back in the mouth as one can, then slowly and gently breathing out. Ch is pronounced through the nose, as if you were trying to blow snot out of it. The whole name is pronounced something like this: "Chhrrr-awn-fehr-pwell-ginn-gell-gaggeri[nose blow]-winn-draww-chhrrrchhhrrr-antissili-oh-gawgaw-gah[nose blow]".