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Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

No, the cat did not step on my keyboard.  This is actually the name of a place in Wales, in the UK.

Llanfairpwllgwyngyll or Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll is a large village and local government community on the island of Anglesey, Wales, on the Menai Strait next to the Britannia Bridge and across the strait from Bangor. Both shortened and lengthened forms of the place name are used in various contexts.

The long form of the name, with 58 characters split into 18 syllables, is purported to be the longest place name in Europe and the second longest one-word place name in the world.

But what does it mean?

St Mary’s Church in the hollow of the white hazel near the rapid whirlpool of Llandysilio of the red cave.

Read more courtesy of wikipedia.org

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