14 DAY TRIAL // A couple of days ago, the highest temperature in the UK was recorded in a small village on the island of Anglesey in Wales.
The village's name is Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, and Liam Dutton, a weatherman for British TV station Channel 4 News, had no trouble referencing it in his report.
There are 58 letters in Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, and yet Liam Dutton had no issue pronouncing this most bizarre village name. He didn't even flinch.
A video of his performance was shared on Facebook by Channel 4 News, and is now understandably making the rounds. Scroll down to have a look at it yourselves. Fair warning: you'll want to replay it a few times.
The video has been shared and viewed tens of thousands of times, and it looks like Liam Dutton has landed himself quite an army of fans.
The name Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is not the artwork of an inebriated monkey banging on a broken keyboard.
Believe it or not, there is meaning in this 58-letter moniker. Thus, it appears that the village's name translates as “Saint Mary's Church in the hollow of the white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the Church of St. Tysilio of the red cave.”
The name was invented in the 1860s to make the village more appealing to tourists, and surprise, surprise, it isn't the longest one-word name place in the world.
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu (that's 85 characters), which designates a hill in New Zealand, is the ultimate record holder.