WASHINGTON — You can tell if a weatherperson is from around here by the way they pronounce Bowie, Henrico, Staunton and Silver Spring.
A weatherman in Wales is getting lots of online love for his casual pronunciation of the tongue-twisting longest place name in Europe.
Channel 4’s Liam Dutton barely blinked as he described the temperatures in Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.
That’s 58 letters, by the way.
of Dutton nailing the pronunciation has gone viral.
“There’s always a chance that you can stumble, but that’s the nature doing the job,” Dutton told .  “But you soon learn from your mistakes quickly, when people let you know you’ve said it wrong!”
The village was named in 1860, in an attempt to create a railway station with the longest name.
The name is sometimes shortened to Llanfair PG — but what fun is that?
Watch Liam Dutton pronounce Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch:
