Posted on 09/09/2015 12:36:22 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Liam Dutton, a meteorologist in the United Kingdom, shocked viewers earlier this week.
Their surprise was not because of a forecast, but rather his ability to pronounce Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch correctly live on air.
The tongue-twisting Welsh village has online guides on how to pronounce the name and apparently has the longest specific single-word .com domain name in the world. However, Dutton’s impressive display of vocal dexterity may have really put it on the map.
Welsh is hell. LOL!
You missed the final “ch” after the gogogo.
Must be James Joyce’s hometown.
It means “Land of the silly go go girls”
You mean Dylan Thomas? James Joyce was from Dublin, Ireland.
Nope, it's Bob Dylan -- you don't need a weatherman Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.
So how do they know he pronounced it correctly?
Three men went a-hunting
And something they did find
They came upon Norton
And that they left behind
The Irishmam said it was Norton
The Scotsman he said nay
The Welshman said it's Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
Let's go back the other way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNN3Cpnur1k
Pronunciation of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch - Welsh town in Anglesey.
The name means: The church of Mary in the hollow of the white hazel near the fierce whirlpool and the church of Tysilio by the red cave
For later.
My grandmother’s family was Welsh.
I think the key is to figure out which extra letters are thrown in just for appearances ;)
“He’s so unhip that When you say Dylan, he thinks you’re talkin’ about Dylan Thomas...whoever he is
The man ain’t got no culture
But its alright, Ma, everybody must get stoned
I been Mick Jaggered, silver daggered
Andy Warhol, won’t you please come home?
I been mothered, fathered, aunt and uncled
Been Roy Haleed and Art Garfunkeled
I just discovered somebody’s tapped my phone”
” Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Liszt, Brahms, Panties...I’m sorry...Schumann, Schubert, Mendelssohn and Bach. Names that will live for ever. But there is one composer whose name is never included with the greats. Why is it that the world never remembered the name of Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern- schplenden- schlitter- crasscrenbon- fried- digger- dingle- dangle- dongle- dungle- burstein- von- knacker- thrasher- apple- banger- horowitz- ticolensic- grander- knotty- spelltinkle- grandlich- grumblemeyer- spelterwasser- kurstlich- himbleeisen- bahnwagen- gutenabend- bitte- ein- nürnburger- bratwustle- gerspurten- mitz- weimache- luber- hundsfut- gumberaber- shönedanker- kalbsfleisch- mittler- aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm?
To do justice to this man, thought by many to be the greatest name in German Baroque music, we present a profile of Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern- schplenden- schlitter- crasscrenbon- fried- digger- dingle- dangle- dongle- dungle- burstein- von- knacker- thrasher- apple- banger- horowitz- ticolensic- grander- knotty- spelltinkle- grandlich- grumblemeyer- spelterwasser- kurstlich- himbleeisen- bahnwagen- gutenabend- bitte- ein- nürnburger- bratwustle- gerspurten- mitz- weimache- luber- hundsfut- gumberaber- shönedanker- kalbsfleisch- mittler- aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm. We start with an interview with his only surviving relative Karl Gambolputty de von Ausfern... etc, etc,... (fades out)
YouTube clip:
Monty Python: Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern- schplenden- schlitter- crasscrenbon- fried- digger- dingle- dangle- dongle- dungle- burstein- von- knacker- thrasher- apple- banger .......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDPqB9i1ScY
ping
Thomas had the good sense to be from somewhere pronounceable — Swansea.
Wonderfully Python!
Did you catch the old man being interviewed at the end of the clip? He died before he could finish repeating the name! Lol!
ha. It’s a 20-second clip. Saying the name took up half of it. :)
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