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Watch how TV weatherman handles barely pronounceable location (Video)

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:

Neal Augenstein

Neal Augenstein has been a general assignment reporter with ²ÝÝ®´«Ã½ since 1997. He says he looks forward to coming to work every day, even though that means waking up at 3:30 a.m.

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