''Gesundheit!''  There's a place in Wales (Is it true that there's an inverse relationship between the size of a Welsh town and the length of its name?) that used to be called LlanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyllLlantysiliogogogoch. I kid you not. Now it has been officially shortened to '''L''''''lanfairPwll'''. Spoilsports. 

http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/gales.jpg

It translates as:

	 :	"Saint Mary's Church in the hollow of the white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the Church of St. Tysilio of the red cave."

''The name was basically made up in the 19th century as a tourist attraction. The town happens to be the location of the first WomensInstitute in the UK.''
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I didn't believe you but there are other references to this on Google.  What an odd name.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll+Llantysiliogogogoch
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My Welsh grandmother could rattle it off easily.  I have to work my way through it slowly.  "Ll" is a hissing sound, with your tongue pressed against the top of your mouth; "w" is "oo"; "f" is "v"; "y" is like the "i" in "in"; and "ch" is gutteral, as in Scottish or German.

''How about you post a WAV file of your grandmother pronouncing it?''

Yes, it would be worth it!;)

It's not his grandmother, but you can hear it here: http://llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.co.uk/soundfiles/llandad4.wav
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There's a scene in a BennyHill skit where a gent sits in a train; behind him out the window is a big sign with the name of the current Welsh town. The train takes off and stops in the next town, where the sign finally ends.
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Apparently this is only the third longest name in the world, though ''[broken link removed]''.

Sadly, at 59 characters long, this is ''not'' the longest WikiName on this wiki. ''[broken link removed]''
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''And I thought this might just be an extreme case of HungarianNotation.''

Hmmm...and I thought it was the initials from the names of all the people who lived there. ;->
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