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A comment on Llanfairpwllgwyngyll.

Re:Llanfairpwllgwyngyll by ghayes on Wednesday May 21, 2014 @02:51PM (#7780020)
> The long form of the name was invented for promotional purposes in the 1860s.

So this was done as a marketing stunt, just a long time ago.

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Re:Llanfairpwllgwyngyll by youngtaff on Wednesday May 21, 2014 @05:13PM (#7780823)
Yeh, I lived there from age 3 to 8 and we all used to call in Llanfair, or Llanfair PG
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