Weatherman nails pronouncing longest place name in UK

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It may be a mouthful to say, but Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwlll­lantysiliogogogoch in north west Wales was one of the warmest places in the UK today.And, it was no problem for our Welsh weather presenter Liam Dutton to mention it on today’s weather forecast.

(via LiveLeak, which pointed out that If you’re wondering, the longest place name in the world belongs to a hill in New Zealand called Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu)
articiansays...

The way one side of his mouth dips into this slurring-looking shape as he's saying the name causes me to wonder if that entire language is based around being completely-fucking-sloshed.
(Or as they say in Wales: "comfquletiliyfontilioshlolshosheld")

moduloussays...

Well, I don't know what this is worth but I live within a 100 miles of Llanfair and this pronunciation is about as right as it gets. Saying the full place name is something of a challenge and I was taught it by a teacher of mine who was very Welsh. I got bonus points as a kid cos I could remember the English translation as well. I'm going to bet that the only reason they bothered to put this village on a national weather map was because they knew the weatherman is one of those that have taken the few hours of time it takes to commit it to memory and wanted a Youtube moment.

Once there, it is so weird it rarely leaves.

It sounds like he learned this the way I did: break it into sections. For help I memorised English ish words to guide me through the journey:
Llanfair (lllllLand fire!)
pwllgwyngyll (pullll Gwen Gilllll)
gogerychwyrn (Gagarin twin)
drobwll (doubllllll)
llantysilio (llland silly Oh or silo if you prefer)
gogogoch (Go! Go! Goch!)

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