THE LONGEST WORD.
(To the Editor.) Sir, —in the Waikato Times the other day there appeared the following item: “A visitor to the Cheshire Cheese restaurant at "the Chicago l 1 air signed the register as Griffith J. Jones of Llanfairqwllggilgogergchwry - ndarw - bblllantisiilogogogoch, North Wales. He insisted that there is such a place, and asked that anyone writing the name be very careful to spell it correctly."
By the postcard which I am enclosing you will see that there is such a place in Wales, although ihe - spelling in the Chicago entry was wrong. It should have been Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwll - Llandvslllogogogoch. The meaning of the word is: “The Church of St. -Mary in a hollow of Whitehazel near to the Rapid Whirlpool and by St. Disilio Church near to a red cave.” In pity for the tourist the village is known for short as Llanfair iP.G.—I am, etc., WELSHMAN. Hamilton, July 20.
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Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19314, 21 July 1934, Page 9
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