Sunday, 14 August 2011

Day Twenty Four - Photo a Day

Ladies and Gentlemen I give you...the longest place name in Wales! Brought to you by a lovely children's wooden puzzle.




The layout for this is completely rubbish! But I can't make them all nicely line up like good children's toys. Altogether it reads...
LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH

Which translates to...
Church of Mary Pool White Hazel Besides Rapid Whirlpool Church Tysiliog Cave Red

Of course the bits in between like 'the, and, where, under, by' etc have been lost in the stupidly literal translation but there it is.

It is shortened to Llanfair for posting and yes, I can read the welsh out loud and make it sound proper. You will also notice the love of the letter 'L' and 'G', we welsh are well fit but 'LL' is a letter in our alphabet so its not that many really....

I hope you try to say it out loud!

Thanks for reading xx

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