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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.
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!
That’s basically how you spell “yellow” in 22nd century Spanglish
You know they specifically chose that place to mess with him haha.