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Word: taumatawhakatangihangako (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cardiff draper, Dr. Follick was born in Wales where every schoolboy is expected to learn the spelling of such names as Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogery-chwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. At 17, he left Wales for Australia. Perhaps Down Under he heard about the New Zealand hilltop called Taumatawhakatangihangako-auauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu. He developed an English alphabet containing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: No Ghoti Today | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

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