Celebrities try (and fail) to pronounce the longest place name in Wales

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Sam Haysom
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LONDON -- Wales is a place with an impressive reputation for difficult-to-pronounce town names.

On the Isle of Anglesey in a remote corner of northwest Wales, there's a village with a name that's so ridiculously long and stuffed with l's and y's that even the majority of Welsh people might think twice before attempting to say it out loud.

The full name of that village is "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch," and with a whopping 58 letters it's the longest place name in Europe.

We know from past experience how the word sounds when it's pronounced properly (just take a look at smooth Channel 4 weatherman Liam Dutton casually rattling it off during a routine broadcast), but we wanted to find out how celebrities would fare when we asked them to have a go at saying it out loud on the red carpet of the London Film Festival.

As you can see from the video above, they didn't find it quite as easy as Dutton did.

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