On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 22:11:25 +0100, clipka wrote:

> 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.)

True, then again, you could always try something like Gaelic.  Or for a 
challenge, try a non-Romanized language; Russian, Polish, Hungarian (is 
quite interesting), Japanese, Chinese, or another similar language. :)

Jim



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"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

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