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[king_coffee]

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is a town in North Wales, and it has one of the longest place names in the world

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[winewomenand]

Things like this are why a sane individual avoids Wales. And Iceland, for that matter.

[king_coffee]

Come to Wales, we have sheep.

[winewomenand]

I do like shepherds.

[king_coffee]

What, craggy, weather-beaten old men? Or their young, nubile charges?

[letxequalnull]

That is quite an impressive name.

[king_coffee]

It is, isn't it?

And the pronunciation doesn't even match the spelling.

[letxequalnull]

Thus rendering it at least tolerably pronounceable then?

[king_coffee]

Well, I speak the language, so it's all pronounceable to me.

[witchinbloom]

You're just full of helpful tidbits, aren't you?

[king_coffee]

Oh, always.

[witchinbloom]

I'm not even going to try. It would be an insult to your mother tongue.

[king_coffee]

Everyone insults my mother tongue. Constantly.

[handsomejack]

[Jack can not currently heeeaaaarrrrr you due to hiding in his warehouse like a hiding thing that hides!]

[king_coffee]

[This is Ianto throwing aaaaaaaaaaaaaaalllllllllll the coffee beans into the sea. Bye coffee beans!]

[handsomejack]

[Jack knows Ianto might threaten this but when it came time to do it, the cries of wee coffee beans, cut down in their prime, would stop him.

Still ... just in case.]

Yeeess?

[king_coffee]

[Hmm, maybe he stopped just in time.]

So. I heard a rumour.

[lady_wandering]

Why do people insist on shortening the proper names for things? Is it really so difficult to learn a few extra syllables?

[king_coffee]

Laziness, I suppose. But woe betide anyone who tries to shorten my name.

[lady_wandering]

What could they possibly shorten it to, Ianto? It's not like my name, it's short to begin with.

[king_coffee]

Yan.