View Full Version : well, you learn something new every day...
Helen Dempster
19-11-2009, 08:36 PM
I was in the library today, and mindee brought me over an A, B, C book. I started reading it, and everything was 'normal'...then I got to the letter L and it said "L is for Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysilio gogogoch! Well, I almost choked, and quickly moved on :laughing:
Anyway, I really wanted to know what it meant, so googled it and it says it's the longest town name in wales and means "The Church of St Mary in the Hollow of White Hazel Trees near the Rapid Whirlpool by St Tysilio's of the Red Cave"
I was amazed...and I'm really glad I googled it (love it!) :D Just wanted to share this bit of knowledge with you all (sorry, if I bored you!) :blush:
Helen x
miss muffit
19-11-2009, 08:39 PM
what a clever little one to remember such a long word :D
I went there 32 years ago on my honeymoon haha!!!!
Mollymop
19-11-2009, 08:50 PM
ahh, I love googling things I don't know anything about I am always doing it.
It is good that the book included different "british" language like that , isn't it.
Twinkles
19-11-2009, 08:51 PM
I have heard of it.
Now I'd be really impressed if the lo told you how to pronounce it :laughing:
helenlc
19-11-2009, 08:51 PM
This is one of those useless facts I know as I remember a teacher in a primary school assembly telling us - not that I can tell anyone else as I cannot remember or pronounce it!!!:laughing:
RachelE
19-11-2009, 09:16 PM
How funny! :laughing:
My dh can pronounce it!
Ds went there last year and thought it was amazing.
Can your LO remember what L is for? :D
Rachel x
Helen Dempster
19-11-2009, 11:06 PM
ahh, I love googling things I don't know anything about I am always doing it.
It is good that the book included different "british" language like that , isn't it.
Yeah, it was good, nice to see that. However, I still dunno how to pronounce it! :laughing:
Helen Dempster
19-11-2009, 11:06 PM
I have heard of it.
Now I'd be really impressed if the lo told you how to pronounce it :laughing:
:laughing: :laughing: :laughing: I think I would've died of shock!
Helen Dempster
19-11-2009, 11:07 PM
How funny! :laughing:
My dh can pronounce it!
Ds went there last year and thought it was amazing.
Can your LO remember what L is for? :D
Rachel x
Oh yes he can - LION! ha ha ha :laughing:
angeldelight
19-11-2009, 11:09 PM
Never heard of the place
Going to tell hubby this later and act like I knew it myself and did not read it here at all ha ha ha
Angel xxx
jelly15
19-11-2009, 11:11 PM
I can pronounce it:clapping: , well I am Welsh :thumbsup: