Jill Tracy Biden, is an
American educator, married to the 47th and current Vice President of the United
States, Joe Biden, making her the Second Lady of the United States since 2009.
She is innews – reportedly managing to mangle the pronunciation of her hosts at
Macomb Community College - more than once.She reportedly kept trying until she got it right -"Ooh, you're
correcting the teacher," exclaimed Biden, a fulltime community college
teacher.
A settlement has existed
on the site of the village since the Neolithic era, with subsistence
agriculture and fishing the most common occupations for much of its early
history. The island of Anglesey was at that point reachable only by boat across
theMenai Strait. The area was briefly invaded and captured by the Romans – the
large village now, has a peculiar and long name, thus making it to news
!!............ thelong form of the name was invented for promotional purposes
in the 1860s; with 58 characters it is the longest place name in Europe and the
second longest official one-word place name in the world.
Dusi, Sevilimedu, Nemili, Seevaram, VadaMavanthal, Suruttal,
Vadakalpakkam, Vazhavandal, Thiruvadirayapuram, Kizhnelli, Karanthi, Sumangali,
Perumanthangal, Thandappanthangal, Vadamanapakkam, Thalarapadi, Pulundai,
Pullavakkam, Booderi, Arathrivelur, Hasanampettai, Thenkazhani,
Kaganam………………….. wonder what these are
? What's in a name, or two, or
6,77,459? In the case of India's villages, the list tells us they love Gods,
Goddesses, nation builders and mythologies above all else, and that, when they
migrate, they often take the name of their place of origin with them. Sometime back, a report in Indian Express
revealed that Lord Ram ranked way up there, with 3,626 villages named after
him, in almost all parts of the country except Kerala, while Lord Krishna is a
close second at 3,309.There are 92 villages in the country whose names start
with Bengal/ Bangal and all of them are located outside West Bengal !There are
Ramayana characters, Mahabarath characters with a solitary village bearing the
name of the patriarch Bhishma, that is in Orissa's Ganjam district. 'Raja'
(king), 'Rani' (queen), emperors and sultans dot the list. Leaders of modern
India too are a popular choice. The study of names is called Onomastics and the
specific study of place names is called Toponymy.
Ib River is a tributary of
Mahanadi river, located in North-Eastern Central India. It joinsMahanadi river
flowing directly into the Hirakud dam. In Odisha, there is a railway station
having the distinction of having the shortest name – it is ‘Ib’. As you travel to Tirupathi from Chennai, you
come across the station with longest name – it is
‘Venkatanarasimharajuvaripeta’ - sometimes referred to with the prefix
"Sri" making the name longer by 3 letters.
Not all would be endowed with diction as Liam Duttom displayed on Channel 4 news. Though it could have left most people tounge-tied, weatherman Liam Dutton appeared to have no problem handling Europe's longest place name. With temperatures reaching 21C, RAF Mona in Anglesey - which is just down the road from the village of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch - was the warmest place in Wales……….and it then fell to Mr Dutton to attempt to pronounce the 58-letter place name - which had been emblazoned across the UK weather map and even reached into the Netherlands - during the Channel 4 News broadcast.
The 34 year
old Channel 4 News weatherman Liam Dutton who has more than a decade of
experience,reeled off the word with near-perfect execution.The presenter, who
learned Welsh as a youngster, appeared to be so aware of the frenzy his
broadcast would cause that he began smirking in anticipation of the moment.With
a subtle smile on his face, he then said: 'Now today we had a big contrast in
temperature across the UK – just 12 degrees off coastal parts of eastern
England with cloudy skies.'But in the sunshine in North West Wales, at RAF Mona
just up the road from Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, the temperature got to 21 Celsius, that's 70 in Fahrenheit.'
He earned
many appreciations and following the broadcast, Cardiff-born Mr Dutton tweeted
his followers thanking them for 'the kind words'. He said - 'Certainly in this news room, there
would be a big sense of fear for some people if they had to read a word that
long. So I think they were quite happy that it fell to me.'He added that his
'knowing smile' had been mainly for the viewers, as an acknowledgment that he
was about to attempt to say the famous place name, something which rarely
happens. And viewers were clearly impressed with his efforts. One wrote: 'He nailed
that, well done!'Another called him a 'natural', while one viewer asked: 'How
long has he practiced that? He smiles and feels satisfied after saying it
hahahha'.
The massive
moniker dates back to the 1860s, when it was introduced as a publicity stunt to
give its railway station the longest name in the UK. Cardiff-born Liam, who studied geography at
the University of Wales in Swansea, now lives in London. He previously worked
as a broadcast meteorologist at the BBC Weather Centre in London, where he
worked across many BBC channels, including reading the Shipping Forecast on
Radio 4.Earlier this year, actress Naomi Watts reeled off the
place name on the Jimmy Kimmel Live show.The longestin the World is
reportedly one in New Zealand : - Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu
!!!
Try pronouncing that ?
With regards – S. Sampathkumar
10th Sept. 2015.
