new welsh longest word

[saskia]

sorry i dont know if this is in the right catagory, but does any know the new longest welsh word?

[Jackanory]

OK, are you ready?...Deep breath:

LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLL ANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH

Which means "St Mary's Church in the Hollow of the White Hazel near a Rapid Whirlpool and the Church of St Tysilio near the Red Cave"

It is a village on the island of Anglesey in Wales and is the longest official placename in the UK.

Phew!

&nb sp;

[Philtaz]

I wouldn't refer to it as 'new' though!  I learned it in school 30 years ago!

[MrsCheeks]

and it makes a great phrase to give your kids to write out 20 times when they have been really naughty

 

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[cheyenne]

mrs cheeks"dont be so cruel lol.

[spainlads]

Gorsafawddacha'idraigodanheddogleddoll�npenrhynareurdrae thceredigion is the name given to a station on the Fairbourne Steam Railway in Gwynedd in North Wales. The name was contrived by the railway for publicity and to outdo Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychw yrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. The name is translated as: "The Mawddach station and its dragon teeth at the Northern Penrhyn Road on the golden beach of Cardigan Bay."

[saskia]

well thank you all for your answers...but the LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLL ANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH is the old welsh longest name...  i think that spainlads probably had it correct!1 well done :-) ironic really dont you think? 

[Jackanory]

http://www.llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llantysiliog ogogoch.com/

Click on here for some details.  Maybe, if someone finds out the new longest Welsh word, they could let them know!

[bernardo]

I knew about "Llanfair-etc" and "Gorsafawdda-etc" many billions of years before anybody else posted any answers to this question, but I did not mention them because I thought that saskia was asking for a longest word, and not for a place-name.  By the way, the "Gorsafawdda-" contrivance is hardly "new" in that it has existed for more than a decade.

[bernardo]

A Welsh fire-breathing red dragon has obviously breathed on my previous answer because I did not put all that stuff in red; only the "place-name" bit.

[bernardo]

A Welsh fire-breathing red dragon has obviously breathed on my previous answer because I did not put "bit" in red; only the "place-name" bit.

[bernardo]

Oh by the way, my knowledge of Welsh is not good enough to know what the longest

 

< P>WORD

 

is.

[bernardo]

Oi!  Editor!  Please sort out the HTML stuff on this site.  I did not put in that < P>, nor did I put in a &nb s p;.

[saskia]

Oh dear!  Seems like I stirred some problems up here.  Maybe I will look in an encyclopedia next time I want to ask a question.  My question was asked in all innocence and for the record, LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLL ANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH and Gorsafawddacha'idraigodanheddogleddoll�npenrhynareurdrae thceredigion may well be place names, but they also look like very long words to me! Anyway thanks to all who contributed.