{"id":2188,"date":"2025-03-04T12:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T12:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/04\/woman-becomes-world-record-holder-for-spelling-out-longest-place-name\/"},"modified":"2025-03-04T12:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T12:27:08","slug":"woman-becomes-world-record-holder-for-spelling-out-longest-place-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/04\/woman-becomes-world-record-holder-for-spelling-out-longest-place-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman becomes world record holder for spelling out longest place name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-03-04 12:27:07<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>A woman has become a world record holder for using one finger to tap out the name of a Welsh village.<BR><br \/>\nEllyn Baker, 23, took 15.33 seconds to type out Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, a village in Anglesey, an island off the north-west coast of the country.<BR><br \/>\nEllyn was &#8220;delighted&#8221; with the result, which was done at the National Botanic Gardens in Carmarthenshire.<BR><br \/>\nShe was named the world record holder on St. David&#8217;s Day.<BR><br \/>\nAccording to American travel writer Rick Steves, the small village&#8217;s name was originally shorter &#8211; Llanfairpwllgwyngyll.<BR><br \/>\nHowever, in the &#8220;1880s,  in a joking attempt to attract tourists, a tailor added the rest of the syllables, bringing the total length to 58 letters, including four-letter L&#8217;s in a row&#8221;.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-03-04 12:27:07 A woman has become a world record holder for using one finger to tap out the name of a Welsh village. Ellyn Baker, 23, took 15.33 seconds to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2189,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2190,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188\/revisions\/2190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}