Tweebuffelsmeteenskootmorsdoodgeskietfontein

Tweebuffelsmeteenskootmorsdoodgeskietfontein is a farm in the North West province of South Africa, located about 200 km west of Pretoria and 20 km east of Lichtenburg whose 44-character name has entered South African folklore in much the same way that Llanfairpwllgwyngyll-gogerychwyrndrobwll-llantysilio-gogogoch railway station has entered British folklore. The name was used as the title for an Afrikaans lyric written by Fanus Rautenbach^(af) and performed by Anton Goosen.

The name, which follows a common format for place names in South Africa, is Afrikaans for "The spring where two buffaloes were cleanly killed with a single shot". The literal translation is "Twee buffels" = "Two buffaloes", "met een skoot" = "with one shot"; "morsdood" = "stone dead"; "geskiet" = "shot; "fontein" = spring (river source) or fountain. While not strictly grammatical, this name illustrates the compounding nature of Afrikaans. All the descriptive terms relating to one concept can generally be tied together into one long word. Another example of this would be wildewaatlemoenkonfytkompetisiebeoordelaarshandleiding, which translates to "wild watermelon jam competition judge's manual". Such use is, however, not common, and such words are often separated using one or more hyphens if they become too long or unwieldy.

The South African Trigonometric Survey map however shows the name of the original farm as "Twee Buffels Geschiet" (Two buffaloes shot) and as "Tweebuffels" (Two buffaloes).

The name has also been used in advertising to signify the typical small rural town.^{[citation needed]}

See also

• Longest word in Afrikaans
• Compound (linguistics)
• Afrikaans grammar