Amazon
Echo calmly pro**unces the
longest place name in
Europe like it's NBD
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Remember that
viral clip of the Channel 4 weatherman casually pro**uncing "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysili ogogogoch" — the Welsh village with the
longest place name in
Europe —
like it was the easiest thing in the world?
SEE ALSO:
Barely pro**unceable Welsh place names are ** match for this weatherman
Well, he's got some competition.
Turns out if you ask your
Amazon Echo the same question, the plucky little machine reels the
name off with absolutely ** problem at all.
This is how it starts, people. Today they're
calmly pro**uncing our Welsh village names, but before we k**w what's hit us they'll be forcing us to speed-read binary for their own diabolical, mechanical amusement.
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