This video’s over a year old and it has a ton of views already on YouTube, but it’s also trending this morning and it’s ridiculous, so I had to share it with you bros. This weatherman went viral after pronouncing a word with 58-letters without even blinking. The word is ‘Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch’, which is a small town somewhere in Wales.
The town’s claim to fame is that 76% of the town’s population speak Welsh fluently, and weatherman Liam Dutton made them proud when he perfectly pronounced ‘Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch’ on air without even batting an eyelash. The dude nailed it. And I’m fairly certain that I couldn’t pronounce that town’s name if I spent the rest of 2017 practicing. Welsh truly sounds like the language of goblins and fairies, it’s straight up comical. It’s not too far off from Icelandic, the hardest language in the world to master, which brings me to my next point.
Watching this, I was reminded of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull which erupted several years ago and threw off all of the planes flying to America via Europe because of the enormous amount of ash sent off. Here’s how to pronounce the name of that volcano: