Re: Fast Echo
By: Alterego to Spectre on Tue Oct 22 2019 10:23 am

... Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula". It can be abbreviated to 3.63%% of its size: L.A.

That's a long name. Reminds me of a town in Wales that has a fairly long single-word name (and BTW, this Wikipedia article title isn't the full name): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llanfairpwllgwyngyll

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On 21 Oct 2019, Nightfox said the following...

That's a long name. Reminds me of a town in Wales that has a fairly long single-word name (and BTW, this Wikipedia article title isn't the full name): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llanfairpwllgwyngyll

I used to live 20 miles from this town. It's a wonderfultourist draw, but
kind of impractical :) Locally, it's shortened to Llanfairpwll or Llanfair
PG.

Ian

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Erazmus wrote to Nightfox <=-

I used to live 20 miles from this town. It's a wonderfultourist draw,
but kind of impractical :) Locally, it's shortened to Llanfairpwll or Llanfair PG.

David Tennant was on a talk show recently, where he recalled doing live theater in London and throwing that town name in to throw a curveball to the sign language interpreter onstage...


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Re: Re: Long city names
By: Erazmus to Nightfox on Mon Oct 21 2019 06:55 pm

long single-word name (and BTW, this Wikipedia article title isn't
the full name): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llanfairpwllgwyngyll

I used to live 20 miles from this town. It's a wonderfultourist draw, but kind of impractical :) Locally, it's shortened to Llanfairpwll or Llanfair PG.

I visited the UK in 2013, and the closest we got was Cardiff. They didn't mention this town though.. I learned about it later.

Nightfox
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Erazmus wrote to Nightfox <=-

On 21 Oct 2019, Nightfox said the following...

That's a long name. Reminds me of a town in Wales that has a fairly long single-word name (and BTW, this Wikipedia article title isn't the full name): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llanfairpwllgwyngyll

I used to live 20 miles from this town. It's a wonderfultourist draw,
but kind of impractical :) Locally, it's shortened to Llanfairpwll or Llanfair PG.

Here in Texas our cities with long names are call Cut and Shoot, and Bugscuffle.

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