On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 08:56:03PM +0200, Giles A. Radford wrote: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 06:48:01PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > And station announcers announcing trains to Llandudno [Junction] are > > not only incapable of pronouncing 'll', but don't know that 'u' sounds > > like English 'i'. I wish they Did Know that... The 'u' sound is given > > by 'y', so they are actually announcing trains to "Landydno". But 'y' > > in the last syllable (where NumSyllables > 1) is 'ee'... Then there's > > all the fun with mutations... > > I'd hate to think what station announcers make of > Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch . They cop out, and call it Llanfair PG or just Llanfair... which they still pronounce wrong... -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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