Welsh hype

[Kari Castor]

To be fair to Mark, I believe he was just quoting the Wikipedia article I
linked.


On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> Mark Mandel wrote:
> >The village's long name cannot be considered an authentic
> >Welsh-language toponym. It was artificially contrived in the 1860s to
> >bestow upon the station the honour of having the longest name of any
> >railway station in the United Kingdom: an early example of a publicity
> >stunt.
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> I am interested in this, however.  Mark, why do you call it "an early
> example of a publicity
> stunt"?  Just to go back one century, surely a lot of what George
> Whitefield and his flack William Seward wrote about Whitefield's
> enthusiastic and multitudinous auditories was publicity hype.  And
> one must be able to go earlier -- probably much earlier.
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> Joel
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