What's In a Welsh Name?

How about this one.

Llan-vire-pooll-guin-gill-go-ger-u-queern-drob-ooll-llandus-ilio-gogo-goch

In English it means - St. Mary's Church in the Hollow of the White Hazel near a Rapid Whirlpool and the Church of St. Tysilio of the Red Cave

The name is for a village in North Wales The actual name of the village is Llanfairpwllgwyngyll and locally is known as Llanfair PG. If you want to learn how to pronounce it, try this:-

Thlann vyre pooth gwinn gith gogg-erra kweern drobbooth lann tuss-ill-yo goggo gauk

This might help. How to you pronounce Welsh letters.

Welsh is a more or less a phonetic language, you pronounce it as it looks.

Welsh has a slightly different alphabet from English

Caernarfon (kyre-nar-von)
Beddgelert (beth-gel-airt)
Llanberis (thlan-ber-ris)
Felindre (veh-lin-dray)
Pwllheli – (Pu like pudding, and heli like helicopter)
Penmaenmawr – pen + mine + maw
Conwy – con + wy
Prestatyn – press + tat + tin
Rhyl – Rill its all vowel free and easy

The Welsh have some adorable words such as:

BOCHDEW. Meaning fat cheeks and really meaning hampster
MORON Is the name for a innocent a carrot.
MICROWAVE The nicest sounding slang name.. Popity Ping.
Jelly Fish So satisfying prenounced Wibli Wobli.

C – pronounced as a K, as in English ‘kick’ eg: Caernarfon (kyre-nar-von).
CH – pronounced as in the Scottish ‘loch’ and the composer Bach.
DD – pronounced TH, as in English ‘breathe’ eg: Beddgelert (beth-gell-airt).
G – pronounced as a hard G, as in English ‘get’ eg: Beddgelert (beth-gell-airt).
LL – roughly pronounced THL eg: Llanberis (thlan-ber-ris). To get closer to the correct sound, place your tongue firmly at the top of the mouth behind your teeth and blow.
F – pronounced as a V, as in English ‘of’ eg: Felindre (veh-lin-dray).
FF – pronounced as an F, as in English ‘off’ eg: FFestiniog (fest-in-yog).
W – pronounced as an OO, as in English ‘swoon’ eg: Llanrwst (thlan-roost).
Y – has two different pronunciations. In all but the last syllable of a word it’s pronounced as a ‘U‘ – as in English ‘fun’. When it is in the last syllable of a word it is pronounced as an ‘i‘ – as in English ‘is’. For example, the Welsh for mountain is mynydd (mun-ith); the Welsh for mountains is mynyddoedd (mun-uth-oith). Because it no longer occurs in the last syllable, the sound of the second y changes from ‘i’ to ‘u’ (also, notice the emphasis moves along to the new penultimate syllable). In single syllable words, the Y is unpredictable!

Welsh Names without any English Vowels

Wales Online has made a great page on their website dedicated to 14 welsh place names with no vowels, go on have a go see if you can do it.
1.Bwlchgwyn (Bull-ch-gwin) near Wrexham, next to the similarly unvowelled village of Gwynfryn. Both beautiful places.
2.Cwm (Cwm) Wales isn’t short of valleys, so you can only think the founders of this Blaenau Gwent village might have come up with a more original name
3.Plwmp (like the English word plump, halfway between Aberaeron and Cardigan, and has to be Wales’ most entertaining place to say out loud

Click the link above for more entertaining place names.