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@angelahawman4263 3 месяца назад

Lived in England and Wales all my life, and I still mispronounce lots of places. The information in this video is all accurate, but the speed that they go through it makes it more entertaining for Brits to watch than any real learning to take place by non-natives. 🤔

@kenhobbs8565 3 месяца назад

Also, they put so much effort in to their ads. They are always funny. The only ones I actually watch.

@Shoomer1988 3 месяца назад

Nobody knows for sure but Mousehole is thought to be so called either because of a nearby sea cave once used by smugglers, shaped like a mousehole. Or from the Cornish word ‘moeshayle’ meaning brook or stream.

@stephendisraeli1143 3 месяца назад

They're easy to pronounce, because we spent centuries adjusting them to make them easy to pronounce. The catch is that we did not bother to change the spelling to match. Only people who try to work out the sound from the spelling find it hard. It's easy enough to say "Wooster" if you don't try to use all the letters in "Worcester".

@jackcarter5101 3 месяца назад

3:30 Actually, no. He said Cester is pronounced 'STER', so Worcester is 'WOOSTER'

@jackcarter5101 3 месяца назад

1:40 Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch means "The Church of St. Mary in the Hollow of the White Hazel Trees Near to a Rapid Whirlpool and The Church of St. Tysilio Near to the Red Cave" in Welsh language.

@kenhobbs8565 3 месяца назад

Map men are brilliant. Watch closely they'll be many jokes some very well hidden

@carlstewart8787 3 месяца назад

Like (w) anchors.

@kenhobbs8565 3 месяца назад

@@carlstewart8787 exactly. And mispronounce Frome... "OK, Portsmouth"

@necessaryevil3428 3 месяца назад

I was born here in 71 and still mispronounce place names so six months is a bit ambitious dude 😁

@INeilMJ 3 месяца назад

Haha, don't worry mate. I was born here in the North of England and I still struggle to pronounce everything right!! Leicestershire is pronounced like Less ter sherr and Alnwick is pronounced Annick. I know it seems weird but the Anglo-Saxons, Danish, Norman French etc all have a huge part in the English language

@jerry2357 3 месяца назад

They missed out some strange ones, including Slaithwaite in Yorkshire, pronounced something like Slawit.

@wallythewondercorncake8657 3 месяца назад

It gets even more complicated with really hyper regionalised pronunciations of place names vs what the average Brit would say. I'm from Exeter, and most people would just pronounce it as it's written, but us locals say it like "eggzittuhrrr".

@andycooper6085 10 дней назад

Yay a fellow Exonian!

@wallythewondercorncake8657 10 дней назад

@@andycooper6085 Wasson me bey?

@filaw6458 3 месяца назад

The reason for the problems, in a nutshell, is that (as they sort of said) that many disparate languages have been spoken here for over a thousand years, all slowly blending.Some of the languages are completely unrelated to each other... Welsh and Latin for example. And people in general get lazy with language that they use every day. Over there you say "Y'all" instead of "You all" for example The reason that Americans struggle is that your culture hasn't had enough time for this to happen yet. But it will.

@drivingiron 3 месяца назад

Arkansas, Connecticut, Tucson, Albuquerque, Schenectady NY, Bowie MD. USA has the same problem!

@lordchappington6724 3 месяца назад

And when you think the places are hard to pronounce you find you can’t understand the British due to the 42 different accents and dialects

@homoerectus6953 3 месяца назад

thats within a 4 mile radius of the original accent......

@Chris_GY1 3 месяца назад

That is not Grimsby at the start of video (how do I know as I live in Grimsby) as there is only one sign like that and that is as you come into Grimsby on the A180. Grim the Viking was a fisherman, Grimsby became Britain’s 🇬🇧 biggest fishing port until the early 80s when there was decline in the number of trawlers due to the cod wars with Iceland in the 70s. Grimsby is the biggest fish processing centre in Britain 🇬🇧 and has the biggest concentration of coldstores in Britain.

@hot5and77 3 месяца назад

I am UK born and bred and also a courier that travels all over England, Scotland and Wales and I still get caught out by the pronunciation of places I'm delivering to. For ages I was pronouncing Keighley as "Kee-lee" because a "gh" is often silent and then I heard a local say "Keith-lee". Until you hear it you can never be sure you are pronouncing it correctly.

@donepearce 3 месяца назад

All American place names (not the native ones) come from an era of modern English. Loads of English place names come from Norman, Viking, Saxon, Celtic, Pict, Jutish and other languages. Remember England has been overrun culturally many, many times in the last few thousand years (but we don't pretend to be victims, we just get on with life).

@jackcarter5101 3 месяца назад

1:05 Leominster is 'LEMSTER', Bicester is 'BISTER', Godmanchester is 'GUMSTER' (traditionally), Loughborough is 'LUFFBURRA', and Keighley is 'KEETHLEE'. More examples - Ulgham is 'UFFAM', Happisburgh is 'HAYZBURRA', Milngavie is 'MULGUY', Barnoldswick is 'BARLICK', and Woolfardisworthy is 'WOOLZERY'. Examples local to me in North East England - Finchale is 'FINKLE', Houghall is 'HOFFLE', Prudhoe is 'PRUDDA', Cambois is 'CAMMUS', and Ireshopeburn is 'EYES-UP-BURN'.

@necessaryevil3428 3 месяца назад

Noooo... its Loogybarooga 😁

@jackcarter5101 3 месяца назад

@@necessaryevil3428 The same tourist who asked for directions to said place also wanted to go to WET - HER - BEE (Wetherby)

@Lemmi99 3 месяца назад

My Satnav pronounced Pulborough as Pull bow roog.

@weejackrussell 2 месяца назад

I've lived here most of my life but still find places pronounced differently from how I expect!

@jonsumisu9016 2 месяца назад

You should look up the Monty Python sketch with the character 'Raymond Luxury-Yacht' . It takes the p*ss out of how some British words are pronounced. It's really funny.

@MsCheesemonster13 3 месяца назад

Don’t worry about mispronouncing British place names. It’s so complicated that there is no way that you can be expected to know them unless you live in the UK and/ or do some research. What is mildly annoying is when you watch a video about British places, narrated by a British (usually English) person and THEY mispronounce the names.

@barriehull7076 3 месяца назад

Leigh in Lancashire is pronounced Lee, Leigh in Kent is pronounced differently, as Leigh /ˈlaɪ/, historically was spelt Lyghe, so we say it like lie as in fib. untruth.

@stuartfaulds1580 3 месяца назад

They missed out Milngavie which is pronounced Mull-Gai

@jonathangoll2918 3 месяца назад

I've lived in the UK all my life, and if I visit somewhere I haven't been before, I still have to ask the locals how to pronounce their town. They aren't always sure themselves! There's quite a big town not too far from me called Shrewsbury, and the inhabitants aren't too sure. I was brought up to pronounce it shroze berry, but many now say shroozberry, or even something different.

@paulmason6474 3 месяца назад

Some British people can’t pronounce these either 😀😀😀😀😀😀😀

@CEP73 3 месяца назад

Yup! Totally agree 👍🏻

@Shoomer1988 3 месяца назад

6 Months? Good luck with that. People who have lived here all their lives still get things wrong.

@NAIATHEDRAGON 3 месяца назад

😅

@laurajarvis3156 3 месяца назад

Yeah so Gloucester is "gloss ter" Leicester is "less ter" there's usually no sess sound.....unless it's cirencester which is still siren sess ter 🤣

@MrStephenLodge 3 месяца назад

Months? I am 60 and I still get some wrong.

@grahamsmith9541 3 месяца назад

You will NEVER be able to pronounce all British place names correctly. Spellings don't relate to pronunciation. For example close to where I live TROTTISCLIFFE pronounced TROZLEE. Or GILLINGHAM Kent JILLINGUM. But GILLINGHAM Dorset GILLINGHAM. LEIGH Kent LY othe LEIGH,s LEE.