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Titolo: [inglese] Nomi bufi

LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH is according to
one source the longest placename in the world, with 58 letters. It is a
town in North Wales meaning "St. Mary's Church in the hollow of the white
hazel near to the rapid whirlpool of Llantysilio of the red cave" or "St.
Mary's (Church) by the white aspen over the whirlpool, and St. Tysilio's
(Church) by the red cave" in Welsh.
[...]
Dale Williams of New Zealand says that the Welsh placename is a
nineteenth-century fabrication, adopted to look good on their railway place
boards, whereas a Maori name for a hill in New Zealand is genuine and was
in general use. It has 85 letters:
TAUMATAWHAKATANGIHANGAKOAUAUOTAMATEATURIPUKAKAPIKIMAUNGAHORONUKUPOKAIWHENUAKITANATAHU.
Williams says, "If we want to go there now we call it Taumata." 
[...]
[Note: The spelling of this word was corrected on July 4, 2000. Prior to
that date, the "o" preceding "tamatea" was missing. Thanks to Robert Love
for pointing out this error. The word as spelled above now has 85 letters
and agrees with the spelling in the 1992 Guinness Book of Records.] 
There is a 66-letter place name in Wales, according to Dr. David Crystal's
Encyclopedia of Language:
GORSAFAWDDACHAIDRAIGODANHEDDOGLEDDOLONPENRHYNAREURDRAETHCEREDIGION, meaning
"the Mawddach station and its dragon teeth at the Northern Penrhyn Road on
the golden beach of Cardigan bay." 
According to The Book of Names by J. N. Hook, the longest place name in the
U. S. may be NUNATHLOOGAGAMIUTBINGOI, the name of some dunes in Alaska,
taken from Eskimo. 
However, in Massachusetts, there is Lake
CHARGOGAGOGMANCHARGOGAGOGCHARBUNAGUNGAMOG, usually listed on maps as "Lake
Webster." It supposedly means "You fish on your side, I'll fish on my side,
nobody fish in the middle." 
A reader of this page suggests the word is spelled
CHARGOGGAGOGGMANCHAUGGAGOGGCHAUBUNAGUNGAMOGG. Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary
spells the word CHARGOGGAGOGGMANCHAUGGAGOGGCHAUBUNAGUNGAMAUGG. 
[...]
The longest place-name in the world is the full name for Bangkok, the
capital city of Thailand: KRUNGTHEP MAHANAKHON BOVORN RATANAKOSIN
MAHINTHARAYUTTHAYA MAHADILOKPOP NOPARATRATCHATHANI BURIROM
UDOMRATCHANIVETMAHASATHAN AMORNPIMAN AVATARNS ATHIT
SAKKATHATTIYAVISNUKARMPRASIT, meaning "The land of angels, the great city
(of) immortality, various of devine gems, the great angelic land
unconquerable, land of nine noble gems, the royal city, the pleasant
capital, place of the grand royal palace, forever land of angels and
reincarnated spirits, predestined and created by the highest Deva(s)."
[...]
EL PUEBLO DE NUESTRA SENORA LA REINA DE LOS ANGELES DE PORCIUNCULA. The
name Los Angeles is Spanish for The Angels. There is much more to this
name, however. On Wednesday, August 2, 1769, Father Juan Crespi, a
Franciscan priest accompanying the first European land expedition through
California, led by Captain Fernando Rivera Y Moncado, described in his
journal a "beautiful river from the northwest" located at "34 degrees 10
minutes." They named the river Nuestra Señora de los Angeles de la
Porciúncula. In the Franciscan calendar, August 2 was the day of the
celebration of the feast of the Perdono at the tiny Assisi chapel of St.
Francis of Assisi. Early in St. Francis' life, the Benedictines had given
him this tiny chapel for his use near Assisi. The chapel, ruined and in
need of repair, was located on what the Italians called a porziuncola or
"very small parcel of land." Painted on the wall behind the altar was a
fresco of the Virgin Mary surrounded by angels. Now contained within a
Basilica, the chapel was named Saint Mary of the Angels at the Little
Portion. The newly discovered "beautiful river" was named in honor of this
celebration and this chapel. In 1781, a new settlement was established
along that river. The settlement came to be known as El Pueblo de Nuestra
Señora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciúncula or The Town of Our Lady the
Queen of Angels of the Little Portion although its official name was simply
El Pueblo de la Reina de Los Angeles 
[...]
The shortest placenames in the U. S. may be L (a lake in Nebraska) and T (a
gulch in Colorado), each named for its shape, and D (a river in Oregon
flowing from Devil's Lake to the Ocean near Lincoln City). According to
Stuart Kidd, Y is a city in Arkansas and E is a river in Perthshire,
Scotland. According to Howard Lewis, the D River is the shortest river in
the world. There are villages called Å in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, a Y
in France, and U in the Pacific Caroline Islands. The only one-letter
placename in the index of the Rand McNally International Atlas is A, a peak
in Hong Kong (although the Atlas shows political units named with Roman
numerals). 
MAINE is the only name of a state of the United States consisting of only
one syllable. 
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