> Did I hear someone say that there is > a good Welsh server at > > LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLCHLLANTISILIOGGOGOGOCH.
You spelled it wrong, at least as far as I can figure. The correct spelling is below: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch > Well perhaps not. John, my wife's mother's family is from Llanfair PG (as it is known to the locals). When we visited the house her grandmother lived in before coming to the US in 1984, it still hadn't running water or electricity. Upon our most recent visit in 2005, someone had bought the place and was doing a wonderful job of fixing it (including electricity and indoor plumbing). They asked about a few pictures they had found there, and some turned out to be pictures of my wife's family. The "w'" is pronounced as a English/American "u", and the double L is like a guttural sound vaguely familiar to me from Hebrew, sort of a cross between a guttural chi and an L. I believe the chi is also a guttural sound. For those following along, apparently the town name was quite long but not as long as its present form, and someone had the idea to lengthen it in order to make it the longest town name in the world, which it still is to the best of my knowledge. A popular tourist thing to do is have one's picture taken under the town name sign at the local train station. -S- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.173 / Virus Database: 270.7.6/1710 - Release Date: 10/18/2008 6:01 PM _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
