- 1蘭韋爾普爾格溫吉爾(英國最長村名;當地常只說 Llanfair PG)
This is the famous super-long name of a small village on the island of Anglesey, in North Wales. People point to it as the longest place name in the United Kingdom, and stations, signs, and tourist shops still play on that. Though actually, the everyday name is much shorter: locals often say Llanfairpwll or Llanfair PG. The extra-long form was not an ancient tongue-twister that villagers have always used; it was put together in the 1860s as a publicity name, to make the place stand out (around the time of the railway). So when someone recites the whole thing, they are usually showing off the joke-name, not talking the way the village talks at the shop. In Welsh it is one long string of real place-pieces (a church of St Mary, a hollow of white hazel, a fast whirlpool, St Tysilio’s church, a red cave), but English speakers mostly treat it as a curiosity and a test of breath. You will meet it in quizzes, travel writing, and comedy, not in ordinary news about the village.
組成Borrowed from Welsh Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. The longer form was invented in the 1860s to promote the place. In Welsh it is built from pieces such as llan (church) + Mair (Mary), pwll (pool / hollow), gwyn (white), cyll (hazel), then ‘near the swift whirlpool’, Llan Tysilio (St Tysilio’s church), and gogof goch (red cave).
同家族的字
- Llandudnoanother Welsh place name in English that starts with llan, ‘church’
- Llanellisame Welsh llan (‘church’) in a place name English speakers use
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogochname
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A village in Anglesey, Wales, United Kingdom, known for having the longest place name in Europe, and the longest English-language (albeit borrowed from Welsh) settlement name in the world.
- Some time ago, during a tour in Wales, I was much struck by the name of a little village in Anglesea. The village is insignificant enough, but it is surely as well described as the most ambitious place could desire. The name runs: "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch."
- "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch" in northern Wales was one the U.K.'s warmest locations on Tuesday at 21 C. […] Comments on a video clip of Dutton's deft delivery, posted to the Channel 4 News Facebook page, lend credence to his claim that Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch may in fact be the U.K.'s hardest name to pronounce.
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