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A smile for today...

Posted: 14 Oct 2009, 12:32
by Filonian
On a beautiful summer's day, two English tourists were driving through Anglesey, Wales.

At Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyllllantysiliogogoch they stopped for lunch, and one of the tourists asked the waitress, "Before we order, I wonder if you could settle an argument for us.”

“Can you pronounce where we are, very, very, very slowly?"

The girl leaned over and in a beautiful Welsh accent said, “Burrr ... gurrr ... King”



Graham

Re: A smile for today...

Posted: 14 Oct 2009, 12:35
by Garry Russell
:lol: :lol: :lol:

Garry

Re: A smile for today...

Posted: 14 Oct 2009, 14:04
by VEGAS
Nice one Graham. :D :D

Re: A smile for today...

Posted: 14 Oct 2009, 17:37
by robbie
Thanks Graham :doh:

My wife, being French Canadian, Just asked me, with a very serious look on her face, "if that's a real place name, how is it pronounced"....."never mined", says I, just get to the bottim line!!!!!.

Women :wall:

Robbie.

Re: A smile for today...

Posted: 14 Oct 2009, 23:39
by JimCooper
I'm confused, there is no Burger King at Llanfairpwllgwyngyll.... There's a Burger King is in Bangor, one train stop before Llanfairpwllgwyngyll.... So is the joke that they got lost and ended up in Bangor??

Re: A smile for today...

Posted: 15 Oct 2009, 04:30
by Tako_Kichi
robbie wrote:Thanks Graham :doh:

My wife, being French Canadian, Just asked me, with a very serious look on her face, "if that's a real place name, how is it pronounced"....."never mined", says I, just get to the bottim line!!!!!.

Women :wall:

Robbie.
You could always send her to this page....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llanfairpwllgwyngyll

There is a sound file on there giving the correct pronunciation. ;)

Re: A smile for today...

Posted: 15 Oct 2009, 19:26
by cstorey
JimCooper wrote: So is the joke that they got lost and ended up in Bangor??

Er.....No Jim

Re: A smile for today...

Posted: 16 Oct 2009, 01:47
by nigelb
At one time, as a yougster I actually learned to pronounce Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. That ability is now long gone. Do old tongues loose agility? ;)

Nigel²