For Shadow Shot Sunday 2, we look for the shape and style of shadow, which the light fixtures give here. Of greater interest is the rest of the picture...I located a set of pics in a box last week, and there was a series of pictures taken by our then twelve son in July, 2003 on a People-to-People student exchange trip to Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales, the home of today's subject.
How does one pronounce the noertwest Wales town's name Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch?
A search sys this roughly translates from Welsh to England as 'St Mary's Church in the Hollow of the White Hazel near a Rapid Whirlpool and the Church of St. Tysilio near the Red Cave.' Not knowing the ancient language, that sounds reasonable to my ears :)
Great shadows, but I wouldn't even begin to know how to pronounce that Welsh word--and I thought German was bad for stringing words together!
ReplyDeleteIndeed, great shadows! What an incredibly long word with so many consonants! One can't even play that as a Scrabble word.
ReplyDeleteI think the newer versions of Google Chrome makes it so that I can't comment here on your blog-I am out of town and working on an old laptop and I see that I can comment here. Who knew?
Lovely building and neat shadows but not even going to try to 'say the town name ' ~ fun post ~ thanks,
ReplyDeleteWishing you Happy Days ~ ^_^
A long long time ago, I saw this name in a photo of a railway station in Wales. Of course, there was just one sign on the station with this name. It looked incredible. And now here it is on a building. Wonderful photos.
ReplyDeleteCannot pronounce this but immediately knew it was in Wales!!! Great shot! I think I was here back in the late '70s with my parents....supposedly this town's name has the world's record for length and impossible pronunciation! Have a lovely day!
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