WASHINGTON — You can tell if a weatherperson is from around here by the way they pronounce Bowie, Henrico, Staunton and Silver Spring.
A weatherman in Wales is getting lots of online love for his casual pronunciation of the tongue-twisting longest place name in Europe.
Channel 4’s Liam Dutton barely blinked as he described the temperatures in Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.
That’s 58 letters, by the way.
Video of Dutton nailing the pronunciation has gone viral.
“There’s always a chance that you can stumble, but that’s the nature doing the job,” Dutton told Wales Online. “But you soon learn from your mistakes quickly, when people let you know you’ve said it wrong!”
The village was named in 1860, in an attempt to create a railway station with the longest name.
The name is sometimes shortened to Llanfair PG — but what fun is that?
Watch Liam Dutton pronounce Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch:
