This week I took some time during my lunch to watch some YouTube videos, and I learned two interesting things. The first involves the name of a town in Wales which is over 50 characters long and difficult to pronounce, but I think I’ve nailed it.
I discovered it while watching a compilation video of news bloopers: a weather announcer named Liam Dutton from network Channel 4 was tasked with giving the weather in western Wales, and managed to nail the name of a train station/church town called llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. That’s pronounced pretty much like this: Llan vire pool gwyn gill go ger u queern drobool landus ilio gogo goch, the last sounding like “rock” if you have a phlegm-y throat.
It’s kind of the supercalifragilisticexpialidocious of its time. Since we in the PA/NJ region have places like Schuylkill to pronounce, we should consider ourselves lucky.
The second thing I learned is that compilation videos cheat sometimes: the clips were supposed to be from this June, but this viral clip is from about three years ago. Looks like they padded out their collection a bit and should pay a visit to the naughty corner, or have to write Llanfair P.G. (as the locals apparently call it) 100 times.
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