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Show Name Needs an Earthquake. It has taken a tiny local earthquake tn i-pv9l one of the world's roost ex-f-r&ordlnarv words. A minor sMsr.iir hook fnd rattled and tumbled thv homes of thos that dwell n I.ldy-ffllanraetlill. I.ldy-ffllanraetlill. Llydffllanllraethell is a "I town in Wales where else? The piteous pit-eous disaster cannot blur the amazement amaze-ment ,with which we face the name of that town and wind our tongue lovingly about its labials; lapping up the consonants, as the great ant-eater of Australia collects on his gummy tongue the little angry red ants that lie in hi path. There has been -such name last up in the face of the public eight l's. sliding off into y's and ff's with the grace of the laic Mr. SAinourne's saccharine sonnets since the Greek dramatist affronted hi--Athenians with the word that pluyid with the "Kappa's" till the line overflowed. over-flowed. Collier's Weekly. |