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Date: 2013-08-21 08:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ext-2124466.livejournal.com (from livejournal.com)
What about Wales?? I want to know what "Cardiff" and "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch". The second I place I went past on the train- it's the longest-named village in Britain :)

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Date: 2013-08-21 08:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theweaselking.livejournal.com
Gotta ask: This entry is a year and a half old. How'd you run across it?

But: Cardiff is roughly "the fort on that river". That other one is, according to wikipedia, an 18th century publicity stunt that translates like so:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Llanfair_PG.png/800px-Llanfair_PG.png

(You could always buy one of the atlases from the far link?)

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