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This is an old railway station in Anglesey, anyone like topronounce this welsh name. :G
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Thanks for looking Alan, yes I show off sometimes too.:G
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No way am I going to try to pronounce that name.:?
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![]() alex james wrote: Quote:
Might be trivial but I tried to imagine what aspect ratio would be needed to represent the long name. Great fun Torgny |
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Your query is close to my heart andprobably those of others in 'Landscape Photos' because of the great difficulty of displaying panoramas adequately, on screen or on paper.On occasions 8 years apart, eachof my children sent me images of that station nameplate when they stayed at an educational centre near to it. |
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Dear Alex, that's been a very pleasurable nostalgia for me as I remember this name being introduced as the longest namein the world from an English student's bookwhen I was atsecondary school or sth:-)
Now this loooong name, for me,alsocommemorates our common past as Welsh isknown to be a branch ofCeltic which was the language of Galatians (aka Gauls)who settled in the hearth of Anatolia in antiquity, known as Galatia, theircapital Ancyrabeing the capital of Turkey today as Ankara ! |
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Thanks everyone, bahadir that is very interesting something I did not know once again my thanks.
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Good shots, I'll pass on pronouncing the name, that is one long word
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hercules wrote:
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Knowing that "w" and "y" are vowels helps a lot. As I understand it, the lack of ambiguity isbecause the written language was largely invented all at once by Latin-speaking mediaeval monks, to record the oral history. It didn't evolve in a haphazard fashion like English. |
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