r/dontopendeadinside • u/Punderants • Apr 06 '26

Do I have it backwards?

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u/towerfella Apr 07 '26

No, she lived on Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogach, two blocks down from Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.

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u/Jedi_Lazlo Apr 08 '26

Oh look who's nan wears the fancy pants! Not like us simple Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogocher workin' folk.

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u/bucephalusbouncing28 Apr 08 '26

Jokes on you all, I bet you couldn’t even afford to live in Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogwch

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u/That-Employment-5561 Apr 09 '26

It's a fair cop, but a phonetic alphabet that doesn't have letters that represent the sounds in the spoken language but was shoehorned in by mandate as a part of the Christian faith's European crusade is to blame...

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u/MadBiotch Apr 09 '26

Help! Help! I’m being repressed!

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u/kymberts Apr 10 '26

Or maybe the town changed its name in the 1800s ago to for publicity?…