Imagine living in a town whose name was 58 characters long. Better still, imagine being a broadcast journalist who is called upon to pronounce the name on-air, which — for your added amusement — contains two 10-letter-long stretches that are totally devoid of vowels.
Such was the challenge facing Liam Dutton, a meteorologist in the United Kingdom, who impressed viewers by not only correctly forecasting the weather for a particular town in Wales but correctly pronouncing its name: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.
Here is the living proof:
