crazy names

yep i knew that one - its the longest place name in the uk, and i would say its a fair contender for the longest place name in the world

i have even been to it. there isn't much there but is in a nice scenic area. like most of wales really.

near me there is a Giggleswick and another small town: Wigglesworth
:D

in my country there is a little town called kakamas,which is funny cos kak is shit in afrikaans.there's also a town called pofadder,and even one called tweebuffelsmeteenkoeldoodgeskietfontein,which basically means that at some point or other in the past, a guy shot two bulls with one bullet and they erected a fontain there.

We have some very crazy villages here.Like Luschendorf...
(Lusche like looser maybe[?])

None of those are really any competition for "Djelibeybi" or "En al Sams la Laisa"... (You can tell somebody's just been re-reading Jingo).

Not to mention Bad Ass.

Bad Ass made me laugh for 5 minutes on its own, has a way with words

5 whole minutes? oh dear oh dear

i know,but what am i to do.....

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch translates as "The church of St. Mary in the hollow of white hazel trees near the rapid whirlpool by St. Tysilio's of the red cave".

The Guiness book of records lists "Taumata whaka tangi hanga koauau o tamatea turi pukakapi ki maunga horo nuku poka i whenua kitana tahu" (92 characters) as the longest place name in the world - it's a small town in New Zealand which translates into English as "The brow of the hill where Tamatea, with the bony knees, who slid and climbed mountains, the great traveller, sat and played on the flute to his beloved."

"Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit" (163 characters!!), meaning the 'City of Angels', is known to the locals as Krungthep Mahanakhon. The rest of the world knows it as Bangkok, Thailand. However, it is not recognised by the Guinness Book of Records as the longest place name as it is not used on a daily basis by the locals.

Credit to h2g2 for the additional info!

i think that if we grouped together we could probably know almost everything there is to know.

probably? - you mean there is doubt?

@Ponder:in the name (Lianfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch) is a mistake...Can you find it? I don`t have my old English book.There stood that name...

and how after d'y areckon they say Taumata whaka tangi hanga koauau o tamatea turi pukakapi ki maunga horo nuku poka i whenua kitana tahu?

well how long does it take to actually SAY the word?

We had a CD at school...it was about 10-20 secounds.But he was Welsh..If I try to say that name you would wait a long time

you learn welsh?! in germany?!

what is the world coming to...

as opposed to brits

"Two languages in one head? Ye gods man!"

I know it, you put one too many "go"s in, the end is just "gogoch" and i dont think there would be 4 "L"s in a row as that would sound like "chlchl" or something...

OK, the definative:

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyllllantysiliogogogoch

and yes it does have a quadruple "L"

wow,imagine you had to write about where you came from.

Where I come from there's a place called slonovo dupe, which translates as elephant's ass.
And I'm not kidding.
It's actually a spring that emerges from a rock that looks like, well, an elephant's ass, and one thing leads to another...
And it's even funnier in Serbian, because dupe is by no means a euphemism. It's probably the rudest word to signify the 'place where your back loses its honuorable name' as we say.

where i come from there's a place called tweebuffelsmeteenkoeldoodgeskiedfontein,which translates to 'two bulls shot dead with one bullet fontain.

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Obviously there arent enough New Zealanders on this site, someone from somewhere else got to that one first.

Well, I wanted to write that one down as well, but a Thai last told me there is an even longer place name (translated into roman letters):

Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit

In short it is just Bankok

It translates roughly to:
The city of angels, the great city, the residence of the Emerald Buddha, the impregnable city (of Ayutthaya) of God Indra, the grand capital of the world endowed with nine precious gems, the happy city, abounding in an enormous Royal Palace that resembles the heavenly abode where reigns the reincarnated god, a city given by Indra and built by Vishnukarn.

(not that i know any Thai, this is just what I've been told)

lol.