Liam Dutton, the weatherman at the U.K.’s Channel 4, is now an Internet superstar thanks to his correct pronunciation of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, a village in Wales.
The town name has the record for the longest name for a town in Europe and it looks nearly impossible to pronounce. However, Dutton got it down perfectly in his weather report on Sept. 8, when he said it as if it was just any other place name.
“It had to be done!” Dutton wrote on his Facebook page. Considering he’s from Cardiff though, he was probably just showing off.
Catherine Zeta-Jones, a fellow Wales native, game him her seal of approval on Facebook. “Amazing job!! Some of those Welsh names are tricky,” she wrote.
Dutton’s next challenge: pronounce the names of places with even longer names. A hill in New Zealand is called Tetaumatawhakatangihangakoauaotamateaurehaeaturipukapihimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuaakitanarahu. That name is in the Guinness Book of World Records with the longest place name in the world.
screenshot from Channel 4 YouTube video