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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.
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. Village on the isle of Anglesey, Wales, United Kingdom: Welsh
What counts as a letter? The list is currently going down to 14 letters, yet cities like Pindamonhangaba, São Paulo are not included (14 letters, assuming the nh digraph doesn't count as 2). Yet names that long aren't that uncommon. Eg. Itaquaquecetuba, São Paulo (14 as well, second qu is a digraph), loads of 13-letter ones in Brazil.
Or, more accurately, the longest name: Welsh team Clwb Pêl Droed Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch Football Club. ... 58-letter name on the club crest.
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The 30-letter word ("lj" is considered as one letter in Croatian) is the dative case of prijestolonasljednikovičica "the throne successor's little wife" which is the diminutive of prijestolonasljednikovica "the throne successor's wife."
Llanfair (Welsh for "St. Mary's Parish") may refer to: Places. Llanfair Clydogau; a small village in Mid Wales; Llanfair, Gwynedd, a village in the Ardudwy area of ...
Naomi lived in a place called Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. And even though the word looks like a cat just ran across a computer keyboard, it's not ...