Saturday, April 25, 2009

"Oh, that's competely different. Never mind."

from World Wide Words newsletter:
 
 
Here in the UK, the longest name of  any place is the famous Welsh one, usually written as Lanfair PG:
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.
There are many longer, including one in New Zealand with 92 letters.
 
This week it was admitted officially that yet another long place name, of a lake near Worcester, Massachusetts, has been spelled wrongly on signs as Chargoggagoggmanchaoggagoggchaubunaguhgamaugg for some years.
 
It should be Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg.

The locals call it Lake Webster.

 
 

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