Excellent Dave! I spent much of my childhood in that village, but apparently 
New Zealand holds the records for the longest name. 
ALH



 

 

 

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From: Dave Salt <ds...@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: regex that never matches?


> With so many 2 character letters, you have an unfair advantage in the
> competition for the village with the longest name in the world.

You must mean:

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

Written purely from memory so please forgive any mistakes!

Dave Salt

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> Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 15:19:39 +0200
> From: kees.verno...@klm.com
> Subject: Re: regex that never matches?
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> 
> With so many 2 character letters, you have an unfair advantage in the
> competition for the village with the longest name in the world.
> 
> Kees.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Aled Hughes
> Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 14:56
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> Subject: Re: regex that never matches?
> 
> Shmuel
> Just for your information, the Welsh language does not have a 'q' in it.
> 
> Nor does it have 'j', 'k', 'v', 'x' or 'z'. 
> But, we do have many more 'letters' which are combinations of letters,
> such examples being 'ch', 'dd', 'ff', 'll', 'ng, and 'ph'. 
> ALH
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) <shmuel+...@patriot.net>
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> Sent: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 2:28
> Subject: Re: regex that never matches?
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> In <0382727397514044.wa.paulgboulderaim....@listserv.ua.edu>, on
> 07/10/2013
>    at 10:47 AM, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> said:
> 
> >I was taught in grammar school that "q" occurs only followed by "u".
> >Before the ascendancy of Middle Eastern politics.
> 
> Welsh?
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