Friday, November 16, 2012

Waiting for a Face Transplant so I can Say, "Wdzydze Kiszewskie"

Wdzydze Kiszewskie is in Kashubia on the Baltic coast of Poland. There are lakes, windmills, and an open-air museum of Kashubian history. It is beautiful, and has its own language, which is neither Polish nor German.

A Polish friend remarked that he could not believe that a place with such an impossible name could exist. It is pronounced V-D-Z-I-D-Z-E   K-EE-SH-E-V-S-K-Y-EH.


I am in a queue for a face-transplant, so I so as to have the necessary facial muscles to say, "Wdzydze Kiszewskie" with confidence.

7 comments:

Mike Cliffson said...
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Mike Cliffson said...

Wuss than LLanfair .../.fivemiles.../.. gogogoch?
(I tried to blog IPA gimson phenemic signs oncet , it came out all wrong.)

Left-footer said...

Quite beyond me and my tired face, Mike!

Richard Collins said...

Mike beat me to it first. Come to Wales Chris, your tonsils will never be the same. God bless.

Left-footer said...

Ah, Welsh is a beautiful language, Richard. Do you speak it? The Welsh members of my family, called Teggins (Welsh Tegwyn?) spoke only English.

God bless!

love the girls said...

Interesting detailing on the Church.

You wouldn't by chance know the age of the church?

Left-footer said...

ove the Girls - The Jasna Góra monastery which houses the Black Madonna was founded in 1382 and there is a pretty comprehensive article about it under Jasna Góra Monastery on Wikipedia. Sorry to have taken so long to reply.