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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, a railway station on the island of Anglesey in Wales, is the longest place name in the Welsh language. At 51 letters in the Welsh alphabet (the digraphs ll and ch are each collated as single letters) the name can be translated as "St Mary's church in the hollow of the ...
Llanfair-Mathafarn-Eithaf (Llanbedrgoch) [2] [75] 1794 Presbyterian: Rebuilt 1853, 1892 St Mary, Llanfairpwllgwyngyll: Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll: Mary [47] Medieval Church in Wales: Bro Dwynwen Rebuilt 1853 Rhos-y-Gad United Church Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll [2] [76] 1785 Presbyterian: Rebuilt 1836, 1873 Capel Ebeneser, Llanfairpwllgwyngyll Llanfair ...
Now, the Spanish soccer league has linked up with the biggest name in the sport. Or, more accurately, the longest name: Welsh team Clwb Pêl Droed Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwll ...
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.
In English, the first and older element of the name means "The Church of St Mary at Pwllgwyngyll [the white hazel pool]". [4] The second part translates as "near the rapid whirlpool, near St Tysilio's red cave", Llandysilio being the name of another local parish.
There is one count that puts the English vocabulary at about 1 million words—but that count presumably includes words such as Latin species names, prefixed and suffixed words, scientific terminology, jargon, foreign words of extremely limited English use and technical acronyms. [43] [44] [45] Urdu: 264,000
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