Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is a village of the island of Anglesey to the Wales. With its 58 characters, it is the longest place name of the the United Kingdom and the third longest place name of the world.
General
In Welsh, Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch means “the church of holy Marie in the hollow of the white hazel tree close to a fast swirl and the church of Tysilio saint close to the red cave”. The name is also transcribed also like:
- Llan-transfer-pool-guin-gill-go-ger-U-queern-drob-ooll-landus-ilio-gogo-goch , which indicates its correct English pronunciation.
However, the name of the village east often shortened in Llanfair PG (or Llanfairpwll by the Welsh). That is enough to make the distinction with the other places of Wales named Llanfair . It is an extremely visited tourist destination. One finds, inter alia goals with these stays, that to be made take in photograph beside the panel indicating the name of the city or to make plug his passport at the local office. Another tourist attraction is the all close column of the Marquis d' Anglesey from where one has an excellent sight of Anglesey and straits of Carried out.
The name was decided in the years 1860 by the council of the village, mainly to have the privilege to have the longest name of a railway station in Great Britain. This name cannot be regarded strictly speaking as a name Welsh, the original name of the place being Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll , which represents all the same sixteen letters in the Welsh alphabet, and nineteen in English.
The name Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is also used as password in the cinematographic version of Barbarella .
The Domain name Internet of the village is longest domain name in .com.
Pronunciation
The complete name of the village east pronounced in API below:, or instead of and drob.ʊɬ instead of drob.uɬ.
The French approximate pronunciation is H' lane-squirrel fur-pouh' L-dyke-guih' l-go-guér-e-c' houeurn-drôb-ouh' l-h' lane-tis-it-yo-go-go-gauc' H where all the “ it H ” is deaf uvular fricative consonants or deaf velar fricative consonants like the “ CH ” of the German name “ Bach ” or the “ it H ” of the Breton, and all the “ H' L ” are deaf alveolar side consonants fricative, a sound which one does not find in French and who seems like.
See too
Internal bonds
- Place names longest