Geography

[comicfan]

Niagara Falls (NY, USA)

[Daddydavek]

Saint Louis (MO/USA)

[Breeze]

St. Louis (SK/Canada)

[Daddydavek]

Ste. Genevieve (MO/USA)

[Gulab Jamun]

Etawah (India)

[Zombie]

Hell (Norway)

[Daddydavek]

Licking (MO/USA)

[Gulab Jamun]

Ganpatipule (India)

[Daddydavek]

Ethel (MO/USA)

[Andy78]

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (UK)

[Daddydavek]

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (UK)

 

 

{Can you pronounce it phonetically for the Welsh challenged?}

 

Hazelwood (MO/USA)

[Andy78]

Darwin (Australia)

 

 

Pronunciation guide as requested:

 

 

LLAN - FAIR - PWLL - GWYN - GYLL - GO - GER - YCH - WYRN - DROB - WLL - LLAN - TYSILIO - GO - GO – GOCH

 

Two points to begin with on pronunciation:

 

The ‘ll’ - Lie your tongue flat in your mouth so that the tip is firmly touching the bridge behind your front teeth. Keeping the tip of your tongue in place, try and touch your back teeth with the sides of your tongue - now breathe out forcing the air to run strongly over the back of your tongue. This will cause a kind of hissing noise near your back teeth. You need to use this pronunciation on all “ll” in Welsh. (If you can’t get this, you can just pronounce it as an ‘L’).

 

The ‘ch’ – is a hard sound and is pronounced like the “ch” in Scottish and German

 

LLAN – the ‘ll’ sound, followed by ‘lan’

 

FAIR – vire (like ‘fire’, but with a ‘v’ instead of an ‘f’)

 

PWLL – the word ‘pull’, followed by the ‘ll’ sound’

 

GWYN – gwin (the word ‘win’ with a ‘g’ in front of it)

 

GYLL – the word ‘gill’, followed by the ‘ll’ sound’

 

GO - go

 

GER – gare (like ‘care’ but with a "g" instead of a "c")

 

YCH – ‘uh’ followed by the ‘ch’ sound

 

WYRN – win

 

DROB – drawb (the word ‘draw’ with a ‘b’ on the end)

 

WLL – pronounced the same as ‘pwll’ just with the ‘p’

 

LLAN – as above

 

TYSILIO – tee-silly-or

 

GO - go

 

GO - go

 

GOCH – go then the ‘ch’ sound

[Zombie]

Thanks Andy. That'll sure come in handy next time I buy a train ticket for the town

 

Nose (Japan)

[Andy78]

Exeter (UK)

 

 

And Zombie, a town It just about qualifies as a village

[Zombie]

Hey, they're not gonna complain - I just upgraded 'em for free

 

Rubbertown (USA)

[Slytherin]

Nyköping (Sweden)

[MikeL]

Gruetli-Laager (TN/USA)

[Daddydavek]

Richmond Heights (MO/USA)

[bikerman]

Shrewsbury (UK)

[Yettie One]

York (UK)

[Breeze]

Kincaid (Sk/Canada)

[Yettie One]

Durban (South Africa)

[Daddydavek]

New Cambria (MO/USA)

[Yettie One]

Athabasca (Canada)

[Gulab Jamun]

Ambernath (India)