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There's probably a word I've been pronouncing wrong my whole life that I don't know about
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Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.
What's the grammatical rule for using 4 l's in a row? Ma gawd what a mess
Perfectly cromulent in Welsh.
According to this song, you pronounce like trying to cough up some phlegm that's gotten stuck in your throat. I can only assume that their history of coal mining has affected the language.
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That’s basically how you spell “yellow” in 22nd century Spanglish
Not Welsh, but I think it’s a compound with successive elements ending and starting with
llExactly what I found, it makes sense and is just a large contracted description of the town, specifically made to be as long as possible!
You know they specifically chose that place to mess with him haha.