Word: pwllheli
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Trippingly on the Tongue. In London, arbitrating a knotty pronunciation dispute over the town of Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire, Wales, His Majesty's Court of Appeal ruled against "Fellee," "Poo-Hellee," and "Poosh-Hellee," finally compromised on "Pwellee...
...events which almost nobody noticed in the midst of all these were the birth in Braunau, Austria, of a boy-child and within a year the entrance into Parliament of a young Welshman-the son of a teacher in Pwllheli, the husband of a woman from Mynyddednyfed. The young parliamentarian burned with liberal zeal to make the capitalistic society of his day a better place to live in; in the last six years the Austrian has undermined the foundations of that society. Last week, within 48 hours of each other, Adolf Hitler celebrated his 50th birthday and David Lloyd George...
...outside the courtroom at Carnarvon last week, three Welsh Nationalists stood in the dock charged with malicious destruction of King Edward's property. Did or did not a Welsh pastor, a Welsh author and a Welsh schoolmaster burn buildings of the British Royal Air Force bombing school near Pwllheli (pronounced "pool-thélly"), Wales, thereby causing $10,000 damage...
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