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Have the linotyper and proofreader come back to work yet after their [struggle] with the Welsh spelling lesson and the line on Llanfair P.G.*[TIME, March 21]? And then to break a syllable! Right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 18, 1949 | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...paper shortage must be acute for you to omit eight of the 58 letters (gyll, w and dro) from the big name of the little town of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllandysiliogogogoch* (TIME, Jan. 15). ... Llanfair P.G. [is the] usual form for postal authorities and people in a hurry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 12, 1945 | 2/12/1945 | See Source »

Speaking at Llanfair Fechan, he told the people that the Labor leaders were assuming the "airs of Eastern potentates," inferring that Premier MacDonald was intoxicated by the importance of his position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Irreconcilable | 5/5/1924 | See Source »

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