Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.<br > This is a place name， surely the longest in the world. It belongs<br > to a small village in one of the smallest countries in the world:<br >Wales. The language is Welsh， which is also the name of the<br >people who live in that country.<br > The name translates， roughly， as: Church of St. Mary in the<br >Hollow by the White Aspen near the Rapid Whirlpool and<br >Church of St. Tysilio by the Red Cave. (Llan， which occurs twice<br >in that name， means "church." You have just had your first lesson<br >in Welsh.)<br > If you want to know how to pronounce it， start with a noise like<br >clearing your throat， add an "1" sound and get as far as<br >"Chhlanfair" before abandoning the attempt. Knowing that the<br >next to last syllable is always the one stressed in Welsh is not<br >much help in this case.<br > When the village that bears this long name (please don t expect<br >us to spell it more than once)， had a working train station，<br >pranksters kept making off with the sign， although it is hard to<br >imagine how they managed to conceal it. The railway is now<br >abandoned and the station house is a cafe， but you can still see the<br >last of the signs in a museum in Penrhyn Castle near Bangor in<br >North Wales.<br >