The power of Wales…
In the same way that Daffyd Thomas (our favourite character from Little Britain) challenged our perception of quietly conservative Welsh communities, the recent review by dmj1962 of the station with the world’s longest name, Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (I had to cut and paste that one from the review!) has caused issues to the layout of the Qype homepage.
Our Qype site team was unprepared for the abundance of vowels and consonants emanating from our Welsh relatives; a new challenge they are tacking head on - but in the meantime we may to go to the shorter version. Sorry dmj1962!.
Tags: qype-jobsWritten by Isabelle on August 1st 2007. Category: Uncategorized
David (dmj1962) responded on 01 Aug 2007 at 6:05 pm #
Well, if you think Welsh is difficult, just wait until you get an entry in Gaelic.
On a visit to Western Scotland, I found a bilingual road sign to ‘Argyll’. The Gaelic was ‘Earraghàidheal’. It is pronounced almost exactly the same way… :o)
Jessica responded on 03 Aug 2007 at 3:48 pm #
You are quite right.
A hill in Hawke’s Bay (NZ) has the Maori name: Tetaumatawhakatangihangakoauaotamateaurehaeaturipukapihimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuaakitanarahu
It has 92 letters and has been listed in the Guiness Book of Records.
David (dmj1962) responded on 06 Aug 2007 at 6:52 pm #
Tetaumatawhakatangihangakoauaotamateaurehaeaturipukapihimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuaakitanarahu. That’s very impressive. What does it mean? :-)
Jessica responded on 07 Aug 2007 at 8:27 am #
Roughly translated it means:
“The summit where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, the climber of mountains, the land-swallower who travelled about, played his flute to his loved one.”
A bit cheesy i would said.