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The parish name was recorded as Llanfair y Pwllgwyngyll ('Llanfair' meaning "[St.] Mary's church"; y meaning "(of) the") as far back as the mid 16th century, in Leland's Itinerary. The suffixing of the township name to that of the church would have served to distinguish the parish from the many other sites dedicated to Mary in Wales.
Clwb Pêl Droed Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch Football Club, [1] commonly referred to by a shortened version as CPD Llanfairpwll FC, is a football team based in Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, that plays in the North Wales Coast West Division One.
Note: Listed in the Guinness World Records as the longest official place name in the world. Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (58 characters); Short forms: Llanfair PG, Llanfairpwll, Llanfairpwllgwyngyll The 58 characters include 7 digraphs, so it consists of only 51 letters in the Welsh language.
It's the name of a hill in New Zealand, and it's the longest official place name in the world. We can only hope no poor child ever has to spell these bad boys in a spelling bee. Though we're sure ...
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Llanfair-is-gaer, a former parish in Arfon, Gwynedd; Llanfair, Vale of Glamorgan, a community near Cowbridge; Llanfair Caereinion, Powys; a small town in east central Wales; Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, Anglesey; a village and community on the island of Anglesey in Wales; Llanfair-Nant-Gwyn, hamlet in Pembrokeshire
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Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages. Sometimes a well-known namesake with the same spelling has a markedly different pronunciation. These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs, which are written differently but pronounced the same).