At the welsh dentist

DoubleRainb0w · 6 months

Yes! Finally my day has come! I sometimes work in a village called Llangollen in the summer, this is a real shop I have to walk past to get to the site. ysiopfachgardiauwrthybontdrosyrafonddyfrdwyynllangollen

It probably wont translate in a translator, it just says "the little card shop next to the bridge over the ddyfrdwy river (name of the river) in llangollen"

towelie1 · 6 months

One time I was at my Welsh grandad's house he refused to feed me until I learned to pronounce Llanfair in full. Skip forward to today and it is my party trick. Needless to say I am a blast at parties.

cal1 · 6 months

I used to live in the next town over, if we wanted to get a taxi or something we just called it Llanfair PG.

argon-donkey · 6 months

I once took a train through there, and the announcement simply reffered to it as 'that place with the long name'

graffiti81 · 6 months

And here I thought that Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg had the longest place name in the world. I think it still holds the record for the US.

JordanBelcher · 6 months

If you want to know how to pronounce it....

TenzingNorgay · 6 months

I think there was a movie about this:

"The Englishman That Walked Up The Hill And Fell Into A Pile Of Consonants"

I loved Wales - the people were/are really nice. At first I thought it was because they like Americans. They said they did, but the real thing they liked about me was, "You're not English."

Fishwelder · 6 months

As a Welsh ex-pat living in the US as soon as I tell anybody I'm Welsh and after I explain that no that is not the same as English. This is the always the first thing I am asked to say. "OOH OOH SAY THE NAME OF THAT REALLY LONG TOWN!!!" Makes my eye twitch every time.

robinacape · 6 months

Llanfair....mumble, mumble, mumble, mumble....go go goch.

Wigster · 6 months

As a Welshman I have a feeling 99% of Reddit won't understand.

2min2mid · 6 months

'So how's school?'

'mfwemwemwmmwmomowmwe'

'Oh that's nice, my nephew goes there too.'

---how the fuck do they understand you?

bluekaylo · 6 months

Rydw I'n hoffi coffi achoes maen wych.

YEAH IT IS.

Matt08642 · 6 months

LE LE LE LE LE LE LE

EllKayBee · 6 months

I used to have one of those fake platform tickets for the rail station - hahaha, cracks people up when I pronounce the name to them. Good practice for the names of fish and stuff here in Hawaii, like Humuhumnukunukuapua'a and Lauwiliwilinukunukuoioi :)

weDAMAGEwe · 6 months

i had a Welsh friend back in middle school (~11 years old - had just moved to the states with his father and sister I guess a few years prior) and they always named this town as their hometown in Wales. I specifically remember the "go-go-go" sound at the end (this was like 15 years ago). Could've been messing with us, I don't know. I assume anyone who lives anywhere nearby would know about the place and could throw it out as kind of a wacky novelty to dumb American kids.

He did a translation for us too, something about a church and a hill or something like that?

thesuspiciousone · 6 months

Not sure if I should upvote from OC without resorting to ragefaces, or downvote for using "le."

FaerieStories · 6 months

Neither of the two welsh people I know can say the word 'Aberystwyth'. Why did the Welsh make a language they can't speak properly?

slightlyuseful · 6 months

Relevant Jimmy Carr Link

davidlen · 6 months

I am Welsh and its pretty easy to pronounce the language. I tried to teach a girl in club my nickname 'Dafydd' . Havent met an english person in my uni in 3 years who can pronounce even the most basic welsh.

Bojan6089 · 6 months

9gag material right here.

Jackpot777 · 6 months

The closest I can come to saying it with my English language brain is...

ccclan-viyah-pour-gwin-gifff

go-gerifff-clin-drubble

clan-tie-silly-oh

goh-goh-gohhh

Where ccc sounds like you're hocking a loogie, fff sounds like the beginning of "ffffffuuuuuuuu" and hhh sounds like radio static / phlegm gargling at the back of the throat. Imagine you're Aragorn, speaking Elvish. Like that.

Lloydehh · 6 months

Rhywun yn siarad cymraeg?

FourteenHatch · 6 months

On one hand, this is real humor, something sorely lacking around here.

On the other hand, "le".

Kronus021 · 6 months

holy bum biscuits ! i didn't think anyone else was from Wales on this website

wookiesandwich · 6 months

le dentist

fuck off and die please

Renderpart · 6 months

The sign and fence part

Gspence314 · 6 months

Can't wait to see this transformed into a rage comic.

[deleted] · 6 months

When I go to the dentist I get to tell them that I'm from Virginville, Pennsylvania.

WylieC2 · 6 months

I believe that town uses the name as a kind of publicity thing. It works!

Reichcommander · 6 months

I hate when people get karma for 9gag stuff

rovert42986 · 6 months

My town (in the US) is has a lot of Welsh ancestry and I worked at the Welsh import booth at our yearly craft fair and I would have to say this name about 10 times a day. Luckily my nain (grandmother) was patient and taught me, but she also made me sing lots of Welsh hymns in front of everyone when I'd go to church with her. She passed away when I was 14, but I think she'd be happy if she knew I brought this up.

shiseido_red · 6 months

Read the comic before I read the title. Thought "must be Welsh," then saw the title.

Folsom8k · 6 months

I was very excited to get a stamp with this town's name in my passport! My great-grandfather was a Welsh immigrant to the US in the 1900s. Back in 2006, my family and I went back to see the town (Pontypridd) where he grew up and the school he attended as a boy. It was fun to connect to my roots! Also, we were glad to have seen the school because later that summer it burned to the ground.

r_nothing_link · 6 months

Welsh words look like transcribed PronunciationManual.

Zeela_D · 6 months

Diolch.

Minus1Kelvin · 6 months

Honest question here...do the locals actually SAY that whole thing or do they just abbreviate it?

its_just_a_question · 6 months

Relevant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_long_place_names

JackRubysGun · 6 months

Put that in a song! Ok!

fatmas · 6 months

If it was really a Welsh dentist it wouldn't be "le dentist". It would be Dennttsstt(och).

sarahweeze · 6 months

Bloody fantastic to see Wales on the front page..:D... ...Fi cariad reddit!!! (I love reddit)

[deleted] · 6 months

Yay, now people know Wales exists!

madetosink · 6 months

His favorite fish to eat is probably humuhumunukunukuapuaa.

FreddieGibbs · 6 months

Meh. not funny

black19 · 6 months

Le downvote

funny

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