[futurebasic] Re: [FB] Long name competition

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From: ted spencer <ted@...>
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 13:12:54 -0500
From the nimble fingers of Alain Pastor (apastor@...) (27/1/2002 10:49
AM) came...

>> Is there, by chance, a Welshman among the function naming staff?
> 
> Why is that?
> Do you mean a Welshman only breathes every once in awhile or do you
> mean he is cramp immune?

I seem to remember that the longest village name in the world is in Wales,
and it runs to something like 60 letters, and, in translation, it runs along
the lines of "The village at the source of the stream where the beech tree
shelters the  badger's burrow".

Mr. Mann, if you please, elucidate...
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