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Word: llanfair (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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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 »

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