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There is a town in NZ whose name runs to 92 characters which caused it problems trying to get a dot com to it's name. Do not attempt to pronounce after a port wine or three. Tetaumatawhakatangihangakoauaotamateaurehaeaturipukapihimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuaakitanarahu However there is a place in Thailand that beats that - so if your life depends on it one day learn it well. Krungthepmahanakornamornratanakosinmahintarayutthayamahadilokphopnopparatrajathaniburiromudomrajaniwesmahasatharnamornphimarnavatarnsathitsakkattiyavisanukamprasit Say it 4 times correctly, no mistakes now. Would this be the time to bring up word wrapping in email clients? :) Ref: http://www.llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.com/ Colin -- cdb, on 1/11/2008

:::: Tetaumatawhakatangihangakoauaotamateaurehaeaturipukapihimaungahoronuku :::: pokaiwhenuaakitanarahu :::: :: I think, from memory, that is a proper name. Others are longer, :: but contrived According to the website the town is 44kms from Waipukurau (North Island) and means; The brow of the hill where Tamatea, with the bony knees, who slid and climbed mountains, the great traveller, sat and played on the flute to his beloved. I make no connection with sheep . I know from experience the Lake District is full of them. I might have to make a trip there and take some photos. Colin -- cdb, spam_OUTcolinTakeThisOuTbtech-online.co.uk on 1/11/2008 Web presence: http://www.btech-online.co.uk Hosted by: http://www.1and1.co.uk/?k_id=7988359

Jinx wrote:>> Tetaumatawhakatangihangakoauaotamateaurehaeaturipukapihimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuaakitanarahu > > I think, from memory, that is a proper name. Others are longer, but > contrived "The summit where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, the climber of mountains, the land-swallower who travelled about, played his nose flute to his loved one. " http://tinyurl.com/52ves http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:New_Zealand_0577.jpg Jinx, do you speak Maori?

South Africa's claim to a long name is Tweebuffelsmeteenskootmorsdoodgeskietfontein. I don't particularly like the Wikipedia translation: "Two buffaloes <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_buffalo> shot dead using one shot fountain" It misses some of the nuances. I prefer the more emphatic "Two buffalo that were instantly killed with one bullet at a natural spring". Even then it does not get quite the right meaning. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweebuffelsmeteenskootmorsdoodgeskietfontein This is what you get from a concatenating language like Afrikaans, where a bicycle is called an 'iron horse', or Ysterperd. Then again, we don't have people called Taluladoesthehulainhawaii Rolf cdb wrote: {Quote hidden}> There is a town in NZ whose name runs to 92 characters which caused it problems trying to get a dot com to it's name. > > Do not attempt to pronounce after a port wine or three. > > Tetaumatawhakatangihangakoauaotamateaurehaeaturipukapihimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuaakitanarahu > > However there is a place in Thailand that beats that - so if your life depends on it one day learn it well. > > Krungthepmahanakornamornratanakosinmahintarayutthayamahadilokphopnopparatrajathaniburiromudomrajaniwesmahasatharnamornphimarnavatarnsathitsakkattiyavisanukamprasit > > Say it 4 times correctly, no mistakes now. > > Would this be the time to bring up word wrapping in email clients? :) > > > Ref: http://www.llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.com/ > > Colin > -- > cdb, on 1/11/2008 > > > >

Rolf wrote: > South Africa's claim to a long name is > Tweebuffelsmeteenskootmorsdoodgeskietfontein. > > I don't particularly like the Wikipedia translation: "Two buffaloes > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_buffalo> shot dead using one shot > fountain" I would translate it as "the well where two buffalo's were shot stone dead by one shot" -- Wouter van Ooijen -- ------------------------------------------- Van Ooijen Technische Informatica: http://www.voti.nl consultancy, development, PICmicro products docent Hogeschool van Utrecht: http://www.voti.nl/hvu