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Template:Shy is a farm in the North West province of South Africa that is noted for its unusually long place name of 44 characters—the longest in South Africa and possibly fourth-longest in the world. Located in the Ditsobotla Local Municipality of the Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality, some Template:Convert east of the town of Lichtenburg and Template:Convert west of Pretoria, the name in Afrikaans means "the spring where two buffaloes were shot stone-dead with one shot" (Template:Langx). Originally granted to A.P. de Nysschen on 24 April 1866 by the government of the South African Republic, Template:Shy is also sometimes known by the shortenings {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} (Two buffaloes) and {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} (Two buffaloes shot).
Name
The name in Afrikaans means "the spring where two buffaloes were shot stone-dead with one shot" (Template:Langx).<ref name="Berger">Template:Cite book</ref> 44 characters long, it is the longest place name in South Africa and possibly fourth-longest in the world.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The literal translation is "Twee buffels" = "Two buffaloes", "met een skoot" = "with one shot"; "{{#invoke:Lang|lang}}" = "stone dead"; "{{#invoke:Lang|lang}}" = "shot"; "{{#invoke:Lang|lang}}" = "spring (river source)" or "fountain".<ref name="Berger"/> For brevity, it is sometimes known by the shortenings {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} (Two buffaloes)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} (Two buffaloes shot).<ref name="Survey"/>
The name follows a common format for Afrikaans-language place names in South Africa, and illustrates the compounding nature of Germanic languages including Afrikaans, itself derived from Dutch. All the descriptive terms relating to one concept can generally be tied together into one long word.<ref name="Jenkins"/> Another example of this would be {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}, which means "education leadership development project."<ref name="Jenkins">Template:Cite book</ref> Such use is, however, not common, and such words are often separated using one or more hyphens if they become too long or unwieldy.<ref name="Jenkins"/>
Farm
The farm consists of a farmhouse and ranch, and is located in the Ditsobotla Local Municipality of the Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality, North West province of South Africa some Template:Convert east of the town of Lichtenburg and Template:Convert west of Pretoria.<ref>Template:Cite map</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
History
The farm was originally granted to A.P. de Nysschen on 24 April 1866 by the government of the South African Republic. It is referred to in a 1914 survey diagram as "{{#invoke:Lang|lang}}" (Two buffaloes shot) and shown as having an area of 6,119 morgen and 429 square roods (5241.7 hectares).<ref name="Survey">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Records from British concentration camps during the Second Boer War records five residents of Template:Shy in 1901.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 1985, Template:Shy was the subject of an Afrikaans-language song written by Template:Ill and performed by Anton Goosen. Rautenbach had originally written the song in 1978, and it tells of the supposed hunter Gysie Grootlief who volunteers to shoot a giant buffalo with twelve-foot wide horns terrorising the hamlet of Sannaspos.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>