Am 25.01.2016 um 21:17 schrieb Jim Henderson:
> On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 20:29:35 +0100, clipka wrote:
> 
>> Am 25.01.2016 um 11:30 schrieb scott:
>>
>>> Yes they are all pronouneable if you know how to pronounce them :-)
>>> Ever heard foreigners trying to pronounce the ones with "cester" in
>>> them? I still find place names around here that I have no idea how to
>>> pronounce correctly, or worse find out I've been saying them wrong, and
>>> I was born here! Imagine what it's like for foreigners...
>>
>> Bah - English place names are boring. Ever tried Irish?
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hwstj9FJHGg
> 
> Welsh FTW. :)
> 
> Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

Not really /that/ difficult. Once you've figured out what sound the "ll"
and "w" correspond to, it's pretty straightforward to pronounce. /Very/
straightforward actually, IIRC.

Irish - not so much.

Also that particular place name ist just there for the tourists, and is
actually a concatenation of two very verbose descriptive place names:
"St. Mary's [Church] by the White Aspen over the Whirlpool by
Whathaveyounot and St. Tysilio's [Church] by the Damnedifiremember", or
something along those lines. (And yes, that was from 20 year old memory.)

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