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There's probably a word I've been pronouncing wrong my whole life that I don't know about (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/showerthoughts

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Just based on how often I notice someone mispronounce a word without realizing it (or have done so myself and realized it later). Statistically I'm probably still doing it with some word.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (4 children)

What's the grammatical rule for using 4 l's in a row? Ma gawd what a mess

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Perfectly cromulent in Welsh.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

According to this song, you pronounce like trying to cough up some phlegm that's gotten stuck in your throat. I can only assume that their history of coal mining has affected the language.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

According to this song

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not Welsh, but I think it’s a compound with successive elements ending and starting with ll

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Exactly what I found, it makes sense and is just a large contracted description of the town, specifically made to be as long as possible!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

4 l’s in a row

That’s basically how you spell “yellow” in 22nd century Spanglish

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

You know they specifically chose that place to mess with him haha.