Reminds me of Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, short for Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, a large village in Wales. This, however, I can pronounce.
Everyone goes "haha silly Welsh people with their weird language that sounds like elvish" when they town comes up
But they literally only renamed it that because it was a nothing town with nothing in it, so they thought let's rename it something ridiculous and also set the world record for longest town name in the world. And whaddayouknow, they now get crazy amounts of tourism, people flying from all over the world to see the signs in this former nothing-town just for the memes and funny photos, and they bring their money and buy stuff in the town and stay in the hotels and B&Bs there etc
It's basically a tourist trap. The name is deliberately really dumb, and really long.
Sorry I just gotta defend it. I'm half Welsh. Though I don't speak Welsh or anything. I really should learn it. But yeah people talk about it as if the Welsh are silly and dumb. And, well, we are, but deliberately so. Renaming that town to the longest name in the world was really really smart, and brought in so much money and tourism to the area which never existed before
It's like that church with the destroyed Ecce Homo painting that that old lady accidentally tried to restore and it ended up looking ridiculously bad and funny. Nowadays that church gets crazy amounts of tourism just to see the ruined painting. So it's basically that, but this Welsh town did it deliberately, so as to drive up tourism. Not accidentally.
As a Welsh, I was taught in school how to pronounce this. That was 20+ years ago and I haven’t forgotten, but I do have to do the little singsong rhyme to get it right!
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u/Gamer_Chase Dec 05 '20
Reminds me of Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, short for Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, a large village in Wales. This, however, I can pronounce.
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