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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
Re: A smile for today...
Posted: 14 Oct 2009, 14:04
by VEGAS
Nice one Graham.

Re: A smile for today...
Posted: 14 Oct 2009, 17:37
by robbie
Thanks Graham
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
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
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
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