Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch??

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I'm not a peasant, I have $25 in my bank account

You dirty 1%, how dare you flaunt your wealth in my face!

[Yizelin]

It is too. He's not lying.

What the fuck Wales? Can't you speak American like everyone else?

Because sometimes even America honors very long names:

[BlackwingHecate]

Or even just . . . you know . . . not have more than 3 consonants in a row . . .

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If I remember right, it means, "I fish on my side, you fish on your side, and no one fishes in the middle." Take that with a grain of salt, I don't remember where I heard that.

I believe it's actually closer to "Lake divided by islands", but the meaning you stated is a more humorous version of "Fishing at the boundaries, neutral meeting ground at the center "

[Kalis]

Doesn't whales get screwed out of any part of the union jack? DAts wacist!

No, the Union Jack represents the union of kingdoms in the British Isles, and Wales is a principality within one of those kingdoms, not a kingdom in its own right, therefore it is represented by the St George's Cross.

England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are one country (United Kingdom), two countries (Great Britain/Northern Ireland), three countries (England & Wales/Scotland/Northern Ireland) and four countries (England/Wales/Scotland/Northern Ireland) at the same time.

The two country distinction is a bit fuzzy and not really used as such, but the one, three and four country distinctions are used all the time in legal and political matters.


The entire British Isles is even more complicated, as it includes the Republic of Ireland (a fifth country) and the Isle of Man (not a country), but it doesn't have its own flag and some people pretend it doesn't exist...even though they live in it.

[belfpala]

By learning to speak Welsh.

While you're at it, go learn German. Your compound word-fu would be tremendous.

Wouldn't that be more like WordFu?

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But do they use them?

English has many more vowels than a, e, i , o, u, y. We just don't give them specific marks.

Can't be bothered at the moment so here's an example...

Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.

Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it’s written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.

Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.

Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation’s OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.

Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.

Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.

Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.

Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.

Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.

Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.

Pronunciation — think of Psyche!
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won’t it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It’s a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.

Finally, which rhymes with enough —
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!

[Kokolums]

One of my favorite Doctor Who episodes from the classic era was the Third Doctor story "The Green Death" because the villain was this sentient computer that had an attitude and had a lot of funny lines. Because of that, I still remember the name of the town the story was set in: Llanfairfach. So when I see this thread in the forum the start of that word reminds me of Doctor Who.

Llanfairfach was pronounced:

llan (rhymes with plan)
fair (like fair or unfair)
fach (rhymes with jack)

lan-FAIR-fach (second syllable gets the emphasis.

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"Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch", the new /needs10char ? ;p

Also the reason that when I moved to Wales, I moved near to Cardiff. Easier to pronounce.
Although saying "I live in Barry" always felt wrong lol

[Bigbazz]

"Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch", the new /needs10char ? ;p

Also the reason that when I moved to Wales, I moved near to Cardiff. Easier to pronounce.
Although saying "I live in Barry" always felt wrong lol

Barry's Island!

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Barry's Island!

Confused me when first went there. Two different places aren`t they?
Last place I was at was The Knap, Barry, but saw signs pointing to both Barry & Barry Island.

[Ciddy]

Made me think of this. Although....funny enough, I can pronounce all of those names. The one OP is asking about.....yeah, you got me on that one.

Also, I clicked on the thread title in full "report spam" mode thinking it was gonna be one of those gibberish posts but stopped myself once I read it.

[Rennadrel]

It is too. He's not lying.

What the fuck Wales? Can't you speak American like everyone else?

No, because they are Welsh!