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Weatherman pronounces 'Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrob-wllllantysiliogogogoch' flawlessly on live TV

"Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch" in northern Wales has the longest name of any location in Europe.

Welsh village's 58-letter name is the longest word on any map in Europe

British meteorologist Liam Dutton is the toast of the web today for somehow managing to pronounce Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, a village in north west Wales, without missing a beat. (YouTube/Channel 4 News )

Without Googling it, would you have even the slightest idea of how to pronounce the name of thisWelsh village?

The sign outside a train station in Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, Wales is five posts and 58 letters long. (REUTERS/Toby Melville)

"Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch" in northernWales was one the U.K.'s warmest locations on Tuesday at 21C.

Great news for the community's just over 3,000 residents not so much for weather presenters tasked with reporting the news.

While the name of this particularvillage is sometimes shortened toLlanfairpwllgwyngyllor evenLlanfairpwll, Britain's Channel 4 News decided to use the full, 58-letter-long spellingfor itsTuesday eveningweather forecast.

"Today we had a big contrast in temperature across the U.K.," reported meteorologist Liam Duttonduring the program. "Just 12 degrees on the coast of parts of Eastern England with cloudy skies..."

His hand started gliding ominously across the map towards the almost ridiculously long-looking name of the warmer locale as he described sunny conditions innorthwest Wales.

And then he went for it and absolutely nailed the pronounciation ofLlanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.

Dutton, who left theBBC Weather Centre in 2011 tobecomeChannel 4's first-ever dedicated meteorologist,has more than a decade of weather forecasting experience,as well as a Geography degree.

But what really helped him nail the line (in one take, for the record) is the fact that he was born in the Welsh cityofCardiff and educated atthe University of Wales.

"It is definitely the most challenging place name in the UK to pronounce," he told Wales Online Wednesday morning in response to how much attention his weather hit was getting."The only other place names that tend to catch me out are places that are said nothing like they are written. But you soon learn from your mistakes quickly, when people let you know you've said it wrong!"

Conversely, they appear to shower you with praise when you get it right.

Comments on avideo clip ofDutton'sdeft delivery,posted to the Channel 4 News Facebook page, lend credence to his claim that Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch may in fact be the U.K.'s hardest name to pronounce.

"Da Iawn wir Liam Dutton.... well done to you sir, perfect!" wrote one woman. "Iwas born and bred in north Wales and speak fluent Welsh, Icouldn't havesaid it better myself."

"I got an A+In Welsh and I can't even say that," wrote another."Hats off to him."

YouTube'sclosed captioning service didn't fare quite so well, as Business Insider pointedout:

YouTube's auto-generated subtitles for a British weather presenter's flawless pronunciation of "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch." (YouTube/Channel 4 News)

Dutton isn't the only person whomade headlines this year for pronouncing the seemingly-impossiblename.

Actress Naomi Watts did a similarly bang-up job in March when she told Jimmy Kimmel about the town, where she once lived for three years with her grandparents.

According to David Barnes' 2005 book The Companion Guide to Wales, the village was originally namedLlanfairPwllgwyngyll.Itwas renamed in the 19th century in order to earn a GuinnessWorld record for the longest railway station name in the U.K. a title it still holds today.

If you'd like to learn to pronounce Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogochyourself, a website dedicated to the Welsh locale has aguide for that purpose.

Good luck remembering the URL.