Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, Sit Down -- This Word Is Even Harder To Pronounce
If you thought you were badass for being able to pronounce supercalifragilisticexpialidocious -- the famous long AF word from "Mary Poppins" that means "something to say when you have nothing to say" -- meet Liam Dutton. He's a weatherman for Channel 4 News, and he can ✨flawlessly✨ pronounce Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.
Nope, that's a not a chain of random letters I just banged out on my keyboard. That's the name of a Welsh town in Wales, U.K. Its whopping 58 letters make it the longest place name in Europe and the second longest in the world below New Zealand's Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu (whew!).
In a forecast from Tuesday, September 8, Dutton reports on the Welsh town's weather without batting an eye when he needs to say the complicated word out loud:
I think it's safe to say nobody wants this word to pop up in any spelling bee ever.
H/T Pixable