@marina:
Point one: oops, but it was Saturday morning, that’s the only excuse I can come up with right now. Thanks for the correction.
Point two: Again your speculation is correct. I thought of it the night before the test, as he had 100 points on the US map to memorize. When he told me he shared that with his friends (yes, all male teens, thus they all remembered it as well) I inquired whether or not, he listed the source. Of course he did. I got smiles and thanks from all of them the next time I saw them. Oh well, anything for education, right?
Point three: Nothing is wrong with them, the first was just pointed out before and I was adding to it. I also knew where the link was for pronunciation. Can’t saw that for the others. The first has just become famous and a tourist stop, which was how I got there. The tour busses stop at it and our driver could pronounce the name. The marketing worked, obviously.
When we did stop they told us about the city in Thailand. The claim they gave us was the longest in Europe, but then the site mentions the longer one in Wales, so I guess they were wrong. I knew there was an in between in NZ, because I was told of that when I was there, but didn’t get to it. It was just a list of the longest in the world, and hardest to spell. I think the Maori one is the easiest, more phonetic. Hawaiian I find very easy, once you break it down because it was simply sounded out into English and written down. Much simpler pronunciation rules than standard English as well.
OH! I just remembered one more nunism:
Which do you want to eat more of dessert or desert?