Well Simon, I do think you mastered and mutilated the name at the same time. Holy heck man, I could not even get close. I do good to pronounce the Mary Poppins thing, Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! LOL. Have a great weekend. Tim
Haha! Both mastering and mutilating is quite an achievement. Thank you! At least supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is in English 😂 You have a great weekend too Tim. Cheers!
Hey Simon …. Have been to Wales a few times and once road the same train you reported on. Main reason for repeat visits was the regimental museum in Breckon. Do recall last visit to Wales journeying from Cardif (arrived in time for a litter festival) north to Landundlo (spelling?). Needed a break and made a hasty retreat to Shrewsbury where the lights were on! Recommend riding the steam trains in Durango, Colorado and Chama, New Mexico. Both are worth the trips and expenses.
"Llandudno" did you mean? There a lot of double 'L's in Welsh, pronounced like you are very gently bringing up phlegm 😂. Nice you have visited Wales, it has some really beautiful scenery. I've not been to that museum, but Breckon is only about 90 minutes from where I am, across the estuary in England. The Breckon Mountain Railway is on my list to visit as they have American Baldwin built locomotives! I have done Durango and Silverton three times and the Cumbres and Toltec twice, (between 1998 and 2016). I have videos of those visits which will be coming at some point. I'd quite happily live in Durango. I love that town and Southern Colorado.
Hi Simon, what a great name and I don't speak or understand Welsh. That's a train breaker, we say. I'd rather have a beer then. But a great video. Greetings Wolfgang
Simon: My only trip to Europe was to Wales (Pembrook). Of course we flew into London and then took a hired car. Now I am going have to be one of those old folks. But I will probably look that’s all.
@@ThatBIGTRAINGuy It was a business trip (one that was considered to be a bundogel. I worked from sun up to sun set. We would ho to dinner that would return to the hotel. Repeat the
I had a difficult time with e the jet lag as well. I was to go to a gift shop for an abbey and bought some nice silver jewelry. Beautiful country (even if you drive in the opposite side of the street.
Right… I like American city names. Well the western ones. Not the Spanish ones although they are fine.. but here.. Salt Lake City.. was Great Salt Lake City but was shorted. But it’s pure old west Simi gibberish. Rock ridge. Cause there’s a ridge made of rocks. Salt Creek. Red Mountain. Gold Field. Skunk Hollow. No skunk. But a hot spring that stinks. Locals changed it to Rose Park. But it still stinks. Mud Flats. Spring City. Well you get the idea. And Native American names. Utah (Mountain Top) and Mormon names are the real outliers. Moroni. Nephi. And a few that no one knows.. Paragonia. ??
True. In America, many names are just simplicity. The stop along the Durango and Silverton: There are some rocks and some trees so they called it Rock Wood. Were I live is Weston-super-Mare, which is a clash of Anglo-Saxon and Latin for "Town in the West by the water". (Originally Weston-juxta-Mare, but changed to sound better several hundred years ago).
@@ThatBIGTRAINGuy Some of the Native American tribal and location names and Hispanic names are real brain-burners as well! For instance, I have my retirment home in the Uncompahgre River Valley in western Colorado..... and that is an "easier" example. Any map of Colorado shows many names which are tongue-twisters, it's fun to learn how to pronounce them..... and fun to hear many local folks as well as the tourists mangle the pronunciations!!
Ironically the station name is longer than the trains! Tom was the closest I’d say. The station pronunciation didn’t help you much! And yes I can say it 😊 The old age pensioners are all going to Pringles! We go over to LlanfairPG for our Chinese takeaway.
Well Simon, I do think you mastered and mutilated the name at the same time. Holy heck man, I could not even get close. I do good to pronounce the Mary Poppins thing, Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! LOL. Have a great weekend.
Tim
Haha! Both mastering and mutilating is quite an achievement. Thank you!
At least supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is in English 😂
You have a great weekend too Tim. Cheers!
Hey Simon …. Have been to Wales a few times and once road the same train you reported on. Main reason for repeat visits was the regimental museum in Breckon. Do recall last visit to Wales journeying from Cardif (arrived in time for a litter festival) north to Landundlo (spelling?). Needed a break and made a hasty retreat to Shrewsbury where the lights were on! Recommend riding the steam trains in Durango, Colorado and Chama, New Mexico. Both are worth the trips and expenses.
"Llandudno" did you mean? There a lot of double 'L's in Welsh, pronounced like you are very gently bringing up phlegm 😂.
Nice you have visited Wales, it has some really beautiful scenery. I've not been to that museum, but Breckon is only about 90 minutes from where I am, across the estuary in England. The Breckon Mountain Railway is on my list to visit as they have American Baldwin built locomotives!
I have done Durango and Silverton three times and the Cumbres and Toltec twice, (between 1998 and 2016). I have videos of those visits which will be coming at some point. I'd quite happily live in Durango. I love that town and Southern Colorado.
Hi Simon, what a great name and I don't speak or understand Welsh. That's a train breaker, we say. I'd rather have a beer then. But a great video. Greetings Wolfgang
I think if you have enough beers, you may sound like you can speak Welsh. Haha!
Thanks. Cheers Wolfgang.
Keep on training
For a while the Fairbourne Railway had a longer station name! Visit:
www.shonellerton.com/articles/railways/fairbourne-railway/golf-halt/
I didn't know about that. Very interesting! Thanks!
Simon: My only trip to Europe was to Wales (Pembrook). Of course we flew into London and then took a hired car. Now I am going have to be one of those old folks. But I will probably look that’s all.
Yes, a very nice area to visit but a shame you didn't get to see more.
So you don't think you'd be interested in a bargain cardigan? 😂
@@ThatBIGTRAINGuy Well what’s a bargain?
I'm not sure, I didn't check the prices I'm afraid. Haha!
@@ThatBIGTRAINGuy It was a business trip (one that was considered to be a bundogel. I worked from sun up to sun set. We would ho to dinner that would return to the hotel. Repeat the
I had a difficult time with e the jet lag as well. I was to go to a gift shop for an abbey and bought some nice silver jewelry. Beautiful country (even if you drive in the opposite side of the street.
Right… I like American city names. Well the western ones. Not the Spanish ones although they are fine.. but here.. Salt Lake City.. was Great Salt Lake City but was shorted. But it’s pure old west Simi gibberish. Rock ridge. Cause there’s a ridge made of rocks. Salt Creek. Red Mountain. Gold Field. Skunk Hollow. No skunk. But a hot spring that stinks. Locals changed it to Rose Park. But it still stinks. Mud Flats. Spring City. Well you get the idea. And Native American names. Utah (Mountain Top) and Mormon names are the real outliers. Moroni. Nephi. And a few that no one knows.. Paragonia. ??
True. In America, many names are just simplicity. The stop along the Durango and Silverton: There are some rocks and some trees so they called it Rock Wood.
Were I live is Weston-super-Mare, which is a clash of Anglo-Saxon and Latin for "Town in the West by the water". (Originally Weston-juxta-Mare, but changed to sound better several hundred years ago).
@@ThatBIGTRAINGuy Some of the Native American tribal and location names and Hispanic names are real brain-burners as well! For instance, I have my retirment home in the Uncompahgre River Valley in western Colorado..... and that is an "easier" example. Any map of Colorado shows many names which are tongue-twisters, it's fun to learn how to pronounce them..... and fun to hear many local folks as well as the tourists mangle the pronunciations!!
Tom wins
Ohhh, but he was cheating! He was reading from his phone, not the sign. 🙄
Ironically the station name is longer than the trains! Tom was the closest I’d say. The station pronunciation didn’t help you much! And yes I can say it 😊
The old age pensioners are all going to Pringles!
We go over to LlanfairPG for our Chinese takeaway.
Haha! That's true, the name is longer.
Tom was cheating! He's disqualified 😤
Oooh, is the Chinese there good?
Clan fire pick gwyn gick gogery (?) chewy rynd rob wickkkkkk anty sillyo go go go gock!
And hop tee shirt!
Good effort.
and well spotted on the tshirt! I got that one when visiting a hop farm last year.
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