Americans Try To Pronounce ENGLAND County Names (48 Difficult UK Place Names)

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Two Americans try to pronounce English county names. Starting with Bedfordshire, talking a stroll through Gloucestershire, and ending in Worcestershire, here are all 48 of England’s UK counties, said by Americans. 😂
Do you know how to say the British English counties we got wrong? Let us know down in the comments!
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@hadz8671 4 года назад

Yes, it's BARKSHIRE. Also the town of Berkeley is BARKLEY.

@WanderingRavens 4 года назад

Noooo! We were wrong 😭😭

@ricmac954 4 года назад

True but, strangely, the abbreviated rhyming slang "berk" (from "Berkley hunt") is pronounced as spelled.

@markedwards9180 4 года назад

I was born in Reading in Berkshire pronounced Barkshire

@frankpennycook7802 4 года назад

And, in a nice irony, the US embassy (now moved of course) used to be in Berkeley Square ! Pronounced, in a toffee accent, something like Barkli Skwah.

@capitalb5889 4 года назад

@@WanderingRavens - and Brits always mispronounce UC Berkeley, using the British pronunciation.

@DruncanUK 4 года назад

A note to all Americans.. the ‘a’ sound in Berkshire, Derbyshire etc also extends to the word ‘clerk’!

@WanderingRavens 4 года назад

Oh no! Dogs have taken over the English language! It's all "barks" in here 😄

@dave_h_8742 4 года назад

And Derby as in The Brown Derby.

@joolzessam1824 4 года назад

@@WanderingRavens There is a place called Barking. It's in Essex. lol

@InstruMentalbreakdown. 4 года назад

AND Hertfordshire can be shortened to Herts but said like hearts

@hotspace1145 4 года назад

Barkshire

@blacklabsarecute3430 4 года назад

Suffolk is pronounced like Norfolk, that's just google translate screwing you over 😂

@hadz8671 3 года назад

If Norfolk and Suffolk merge will they just call it "Fck"?

@neuralwarp 3 года назад

Dorset .. /Dorsit/ Somerset .. /Summerset/ ??

@pauljackson6168 4 года назад

Haha, "when I was American". You're one of us now!

@WanderingRavens 4 года назад

😆😆

@METALFREAK03 4 года назад

reminded me of this song watch?v=UQR3tULUtYY ironically sung by americans.

@MrJonno85 4 года назад

@@METALFREAK03 Which song was that?

@METALFREAK03 4 года назад

@@MrJonno85 Skinlab - One of us (its because he said "one of us" and I read it in the manner it was sung by these guys - I think its about illicit drugs however.)

@MrJonno85 4 года назад

@@METALFREAK03 I checked out that track on RU-vid - clearly not a cover of the Abba song of the same name.

@raymonde4272 4 года назад

British people are softer on the R's is phonetically a good double entendre.

@WanderingRavens 4 года назад

😂😂

@trickygoose2 4 года назад

I would make an exception for Scottish people who tend to roll their Rs.

@felicitydavies3227 4 года назад

@@trickygoose2 Welsh roll their R's too, must just be the English who uses soft R's

@wscottwatson 4 года назад

Southern English people anyway.

@TheSpacecraftX 4 года назад

Not all British.

@Whiteshirtloosetie 4 года назад

Almost there. To get it more exact. Living in Bedfordshire the shire sound is a cross between 'shir' and 'sheer', so 'shier'/shee-a. Then when saying it faster the 'ee' sound is still there but almost disappears.

@WanderingRavens 4 года назад

Thanks for the tip! We will master British town and county names yet haha

@Whiteshirtloosetie 4 года назад

@@WanderingRavens :D To be fair you both teach me things I didn't know before.

@oz25 4 года назад

@@WanderingRavens Lincolnshire is often said more like Lincunsh' with a very very slight/soft "schwa" at the end. Maybe Lincunsh(uh) with the uh/schwh, again pretty much 'disappearing'. xxx

@Brookesworld777 4 года назад

My ears were impressed but also bled with some of the pronunciations. 🤣 Don't give me a microwave cup of tea. 😅

@WanderingRavens 4 года назад

We'd never dream of offering you anything but the best, most proper cup of tea to soothe your ears 🤣

@Brookesworld777 4 года назад

😅🤣

@jenny2245 4 года назад

No. You should put tea in your mouth, not your ears...

@WanderingRavens 4 года назад

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@thewomble1509 4 года назад

FYI, BARK shire is correct.

@josephdolman 4 года назад

The scone debate will go on forever

@eanjamesmogg9488 4 года назад

Try Welsh County names I dare you, to be honest most are easy 😁

@pipercharms7374 4 года назад

Love you to react to this, the city of London, isn't actually london, its a city (liturally) inside London XD :) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tIuVXtwbqss.html Though totally understand if you don't want to but love you both to watch it in your own time instead then, I think you'll find it interesting :) Or this one is much shorter though not to do with the history behind it ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jZkuwE3ocG8.html

@WanderingRavens 4 года назад

@@eanjamesmogg9488 We're doing those next week!

@tonycasey3183 4 года назад

Where does the Pink Panther live? Durham, Durham, Durham, Durham, Durham Durham Durhaaaam

@WanderingRavens 4 года назад

😂😂

@doyouhearthepeoplesing2 4 года назад

💀💀💀💀

@hotspace1145 4 года назад

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@ellapop8936 4 года назад

Genius

@MrCalland 4 года назад

Never thought of that but that is how you say it here hahaha

@nil0603 4 года назад

I'm from county Durham and we pronounce it "durum"

@WanderingRavens 4 года назад

Thank you for clearing that up for us!

@yossarian6799 4 года назад

We get George Gently here in the states. I love the Geordie accent. The way they say "wait ress" instead of "waitchress"... Are the accents on the show authentic?

@nil0603 4 года назад

@@yossarian6799 I actually haven't saw George gently before, but people from county Durham aren't geordie that's only people from Newcastle, people from Middlesbrough or Sunderland get really annoyed when you call them geordies 😂

@davegb99 4 года назад

Yes, we all know that Middlesborough is the North Riding of Yorkshire :-)

@cheyennedogsoldiers 4 года назад

I was born in Durham and have lived in several areas around the county and have noticed accents vary considerably, especially east to west so you may encounter variations of both your pronunciations.

@oldboy5001 4 года назад

14:57 Your pronunciation of Suffolk was correct, Google's was wrong.

@keithholland-delamere2287 4 года назад

You're correct, google is wrong

@WanderingRavens 4 года назад

Good to know! Happy to add another point to our score :D

@MousePotato 4 года назад

I totally agree. Google was wrong.

@trickygoose2 4 года назад

Agreed 100%

@countertony 4 года назад

"City of London"? That's the square mile (basically the old Roman and medieval city, near enough) - the county is "Greater London".

@WanderingRavens 4 года назад

Good to know!

@countertony 4 года назад

@@WanderingRavens Yeah, whererver you got the list from slipped you a dud entry. By the way, a lot of (particularly southern) English accents will pronounce the 'i' in -shire, the 'e' in Sussex and the 'o' in Devon as a schwa (the neutral vowel, a bit like the 'e' in the French 'je'), so it's legit for all those vowels to sound the same.

@countertony 4 года назад

Also the 'a' in Rutland, which I think leaves 'u' as the only vowel not to be pronounced as schwa in the list of counties.

@Waterford1992 4 года назад

Yeah this 2 arent very bright, i bet they confuse New York City with New York State too

@lemsip207 4 года назад

Created in 1965 when the London boundaries were moved outwards taking in parts of Kent, Essex and Surrey. Middlesex disappeared altogether as it was swallowed up by Greater London and Hertfordshire. The GLC replaced the old London County Council and with it the boroughs were joined together to form 32 new boroughs.

@METALFREAK03 4 года назад

Wandering Ravens: (with absolute US confidence) Burk-shire Google translate British woman: Bark-shire Wandering Ravens: (giving a curious look at eachother) It's really not. HAHAHAHA

@WanderingRavens 4 года назад

😂😂

@ricoantinoro1253 4 года назад

@@WanderingRavens Speaking from Maidenhead, it is indeed pronounced Bark-shire. English people from further up North or to the West pronounce it how you did, so it's an easy mistake to make. No sweat!

@kissywitch 4 года назад

"Burkshire" and"Burkeley"sounds hideous - just so wrong! Imagine Dame Vera Lynn singing "A nightingale sang in "BURKELEY Square" - aaaaaahhhhhhh!!!!!

@Moojingles_ 3 года назад

@@kissywitch alright mate bloody hell no need to have a breakdown

@SNMG7664 4 года назад

"The City of London" is like a tiny separate city inside London, a separate thing. The queen actually needs to ask for and be granted permission to enter The City of London. They'd never say no but she technically still has to ask.

@stevebrindle1724 3 года назад

The City is a capitalist blob and should be blown up, just as the royals should be exterminated as they are scrounging twats, that many English, especially in the North of England cannot stand!

3 года назад

steve brindle You’re speaking as a northerner, are you?

@mydrillasanjay5397 2 года назад

@@stevebrindle1724 up the north

@jphaggerty9046 4 года назад

Northamptonian from Northamptonshire, here! The "H" is generally dropped to make "Nor-THAMP-tun." Or, possibly more accurately among natives, "Nor-FAM-tun."

@harrytibbles4134 4 года назад

You right

@flappetyflippers 3 года назад

Weird I'm from Leicestershire and we call it both. Oh but the f bit is definitely correct. Edit: after asking around the general consensus in Leicester is to pronounce the 'h' in Northamptonshire.

@michw3755 4 года назад

Google translate was pretty much spot on where she changed the "e" to an "a" was correct, the only one I took issue with was Durham, she pronounced it a bit weird, Grace in this instance was correct. Oh, and Cumbria, you were correct again, I think she has a problem pronouncing "u" 😂👍

@tonycasey3183 4 года назад

derbyshire like Berkshire has the E pronounced as an A

@WanderingRavens 4 года назад

Wow!! Both those towns really surprised us 😂

@simonbutterfield4860 4 года назад

@@WanderingRavens in old English Derby was Deorbi and with the great vowel shift in the 17C probably explains some of the differences.

@Oscardavies27 4 года назад

@@WanderingRavens The word derby is pronounced darby in normal conversation. If we were to say a local derby in a football match for example, that would mean it's a game with a fierce rivalry because the teams are from places close to each other

@EASYTIGER10 4 года назад

Saying all this, the locals pronounce it "Dorbeh"

@nxtha_n925 4 года назад

Wandering Ravens TOWNS???? They are counties.

@wamp7 4 года назад

I’m from Norfolk and the ‘shires’ I pronounce more ‘shear’ than ‘shurr’

@flappetyflippers 3 года назад

Same

@clairemanning5334 3 года назад

Same with me (Suffolk)

@amandahall5395 3 года назад

Yes! This! I'm intrigued - are there UK accents that say "shur"? I'm definitely in the "shear" camp (also from Suffolk though...)

@emilyduke4255 3 года назад

@@amandahall5395 I’m from Hampshire. Everyone I know pronounces it “Hamp-sher”

@anyareid593 3 года назад

Same with me (Somerset)

@kraffles 4 года назад

You two brighten up my evenings when your videos come out. Thanks, from Whimple.

@WanderingRavens 4 года назад

Thank you so much for your kind comment, Steve! We appreciate your support and encouragement :D

@larry-naylor 4 года назад

I'm really proud of you guys, you cracked it with a sense of fun and humour. I love it. 😀

@Twittler1 4 года назад

You got the scone thing the wrong way round. Devon is jam on top, Cornwall is cream on top, the only true way. All else is heresy.

@WanderingRavens 4 года назад

Oh no! Sorry for getting that reversed!

@redbeki 4 года назад

Scon or scone ?... There's one for you Ravens ...

@redbeki 4 года назад

Who cares .. it's gorgeous either way !

@simonbutterfield4860 4 года назад

@@redbeki my Yorkshire mind says scon (laughs)

@mentaldavethefirst 4 года назад

@@WanderingRavens you also said scone wrong ;)

@Georgexb 4 года назад

In British English (especially place names) the ‘Berk’ sound is almost exclusively said as ‘bark’. So Berkshire is pronounced Barkshire. Berkeley square is pronounced ‘Barkly square’

@WanderingRavens 4 года назад

Thank you for letting us know!

@paolobacardi 4 года назад

@@WanderingRavens FYI, there is also an insult derived from this county name, to call someone a berk, sounds like burk, a stupid person, but is derived from rhyming slang which in Brit speak actually never uses the rhyming word it implies. i.e. Can I use your dog? (dog and bone. = phone). It relates to fox hunting, so the Berkshire (sounds like Barksire) hunt. But to call someone a berk, you are actually call someone a word that rhymes with hunt... Rhyming slang should keep you busy... This classic comedy sketch, even with the rhyming words left in should keep you busy... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ij5mw_eqKuc.html

@oz25 4 года назад

@@paolobacardi See you next Tuesday!

@CrazyInWeston 3 года назад

@@oz25 Defo a see you next tuesday type of person.

@TheBloodsuger150 4 года назад

The city of London isn’t London but that’s a whole different thing

@norfldnen3291 3 года назад

City of London is the original London from Roman times (londinium or something like that) then it was expanded over time to what it is today

@Georgexb 4 года назад

London is actually quite complicated geographically. What most people call ‘London’ is actually split into Greater London and the City of London. Greater London covers the vast majority of the area and includes everything from housing districts to museums etc. The City of London is a single square mile in the middle of London, and is the financial centre of the country. It has the headquarters of virtually all the big banks and financial industries. The City of London (also called ‘the city’ or ‘the square mile) essentially operates like its own country, it has medieval style laws, it’s own mayor who wears a funny hat, guilds and the Queen can’t go there without asking permission. It’s a remnant of when the Romans established what is now the City of London as a trading post.

@WanderingRavens 4 года назад

This helps a lot! Thank you, George :D

@Georgexb 4 года назад

Wandering Ravens There’s quite a good video on it done by CGP Grey

@Georgexb 4 года назад

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LrObZ_HZZUc.html

@alanhayes33 4 года назад

Yes London or oriiganally londinium was from landing Romans from Italy called it! Greater or domain,

@tylerpathe9998 4 года назад

Wandering Ravens yes the City of London is ancient compared to the rest of the city, it’s a very interesting place historically. The district has its own livery companies which are mind-bending, with the oldest, the Weavers’ Company, dating all the way back to 1155. There’s a really cool mix of new and old buildings, most of which were designed by Sir Christopher Wren. And I was there today! I love your channel guys, keep up the great work!

@LordJuzzie 4 года назад

I am sure that the county's ending in sex is a reference to Saxons. Sussex was south Saxony and Essex East Saxony. if I am wrong someone correct me

@WanderingRavens 4 года назад

You're right! Several other commenters have confirmed this :D

@trickygoose2 4 года назад

I believe you are correct. Wessex (now I think part of Hampshire and Dorset) was West and Middlesex was the middle/centre. For some reason, my own county of Hertfordshire is not Nossex or Nessex!

@geoffpriestley7001 4 года назад

Juzr156 i live in saxton ... and there's not much going on here 😅

@LordJuzzie 4 года назад

@@trickygoose2 mmm it is intersting because Hertfordshire is a Saxon/Old English name. A hart being a fully mature stag. It should be Norssex or something though haha.

@raymartin7172 4 года назад

Just Saxons. Saxon Anhalt is a German state. Both named after the Saxons , who were named after their distinctive knife, the seax

@chelsal 4 года назад

Great fun as usual guys. Well done Eric for getting Hertfordshire right :)

@WanderingRavens 4 года назад

Thank you! We're improving with our pronunciation I think (I hope haha)

@pabmusic1 4 года назад

"Riding' means 'a third part' (it's related to 'thrid' - an older version of 'third'). Yorkshire was traditionally split into three administrative areas, East, West, and North.

@neuralwarp 3 года назад

And in Sussex they're called, unfortunately, Rapes

@terryloveuk 4 года назад

Essex (East Saxons) Sussex (South Saxons) Middlesex (now mostly subsumed into Greater London) (Middle Saxons) Wessex (not a county but a region) (West Saxons)

@trippydrew8492 4 года назад

My Norfolk accent pronounces the "shire" as "shear" as in "shear the sheep".

@trippydrew8492 4 года назад

Also, as a Norfolk native, we tend to pronounce the "folk" as the word "fuck" but without the "U" if that makes sense. Nor-fck. Although some of the older generations do still have a slight "I" sound in there but very slight.

@lucaluc5177 3 года назад

i do this too! i used to live in norfolk but my accent has kind of dropped now, but i don't know if that's maybe stayed on a bit?

@q3b26 3 года назад

I'm from North London but I've always pronounced most 'shire' places as 'shear' other than Cheshire and Yorkshire those to me are pronounced as "Chesh-a and Yorksh-a"

@holly9415 4 года назад

"if it wasn't for me personally you'd still be speaking German!.....Still?....." 😂 3:25

@WanderingRavens 4 года назад

😂😂

@mrbartle7556 3 года назад

Just found you guys and I loved this vid. I'm from the UK and thanks a bunch for a brilliant video haha! Proper job ;)

@niamhduffy2012 4 года назад

Derbyshire is beautiful you should come visit, when it's legal 😂 There's a town that has a dam that almost flooded the entire valley and 7000 people were evacuated but it's fine now 😂

@WanderingRavens 4 года назад

Soon as it's legal we'll be over! :D

@skibbedypappow4579 3 года назад

Derbyshire is fucking boring get me out please

@mentaldavethefirst 4 года назад

When you say British people are softer on the r's a substantial proportion of them just did a Frankie Howard impression.

@dailyprophet6641 4 года назад

as an explanation:ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yJLwknHXJDg.html

@rossshepherd9836 4 года назад

Scots are harsher on the R, so what I assume they meant was English, not British.

@Twittler1 4 года назад

Tyne and Wear - both rivers.

@WanderingRavens 4 года назад

Ayy! Can't believe we got that right! :D

@adrianbrattle345 4 года назад

County was founded in 1974 for administrative convenience.

@stephenmarsh5296 4 года назад

Love you guys. Such fun vlogs and I love the way you don't take yourselves too seriously which is really refreshing in this pretty strange time that we are living.

@WanderingRavens 4 года назад

We're so glad you like them! :D

@roadskare63 4 года назад

HAHAHA!!...this was GREAT!!....and ty for the 411....and BTW, u two make a really cute couple!!.....more power to you all...and keep up the FUN!!

@WanderingRavens 4 года назад

Thank you so much!!

@dinger40 4 года назад

Riding is old English for third, Yorkshire was so big it was divided in to thirds. Was North, East and West Ridings. In 1974 The East Riding mostly became Humberside and part of the West Riding became the Soviet Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire. ;¬))

@WanderingRavens 4 года назад

Thank you for taking the time to answer our question! :D

@kevinbrownsword9558 4 года назад

It’s back as the East Riding now. Humberside was dropped in 96

@keithorbell8946 4 года назад

Also Cleveland

@dinger40 4 года назад

@@kevinbrownsword9558 Thanks, over 50 years since I left.

@kevinbrownsword9558 4 года назад

dinger40 I’ve only been here for 12 years so missed all the kerfuffle

@Pablosplace 4 года назад

Darwin was born in a house down the road from me. Greetings from Shrewsbury, Shropshire. ✌️

@baf_mcnab3065 3 года назад

But is that SHREWsbury as in 'shroo' to rhyme with shoe, or as in shrow to rhyme with show ? :P

@Pablosplace 3 года назад

@@baf_mcnab3065 Shoe of course. Only posh folk and outsiders call it "Shrowsbury" 🤣

@AlisonBryen 3 года назад

@@baf_mcnab3065 Its Shroosbury. Anyone calling it Shrowsbury is being pretentious and insufferable.

@baf_mcnab3065 3 года назад

@@AlisonBryen Daccord, used to go out with a girl from Ironbridge, her family pronounced it 'shroo' but her posh friend said 'shrow...'

@leahmaybf 4 года назад

I’m from rugby - it’s crazy that you were staying so close when you lived in the uk! Always look forward to your videos!

@martintabony611 4 года назад

Yorkshire was a large county, broken down into areas called "Ridings".

@merryclift2953 4 года назад

the 'wall' in cornwall is pronounced more like how you say "wool"

@oshawhat87 4 года назад

You were spot on about Tyne and Wear being rivers. It became a county in 1974, so it's quite young in comparison to a lot of the others, and might be why it's named so differently

@WanderingRavens 4 года назад

Yay! Can we say that I get two additional points for that: ;)

@stephencressey1 3 года назад

Tyne and Wear WAS a county but was disbanded in 1986.

@iapetusmccool 3 года назад

How to name a place in England: 1) take a fairly straight-forward description of the place (possibly in an ancient language). 2) mash all the words together into one word. 3) blur or drop some of the letters or syllables to make it easier to say as one word. 4) possibly make some weird, random, unpredictable change to how part of it is said, for the lulz, and to make things harder for outsiders.

@baf_mcnab3065 3 года назад

Good shout on the Ox ford thing and yes, a lot of our place names are descriptive. For instance in the midlands we have a small town called Brownhills and yes you've guessed it, there used to be opencast mining there. In the town there is a great 'sculpture' of a miner. Midlands is of course an abbreviation of middle lands, and so on.

@aaronchapman1306 4 года назад

Berkshire is pronounced "Barkshire" it's the same with Derbyshire its pronounced Darbyshire

@WanderingRavens 4 года назад

Noooo! We were wrong 😭😭

@philipjamesarmstrong1364 4 года назад

@@WanderingRavens The fact that you make the effort to educate yourselves about Britain stands you in good stead, I think we can forgive you the odd clunker in pronunciation!

@Rockdoc2174 4 года назад

Jimmy Bagshaw Arta rait, me duck? (How are you my friend? for the Ravens)

@Rockdoc2174 4 года назад

I probably should have said that Derbyshire dialect has a lot in common with other northern dialects in areas that were inside the Danelaw 1,000 years ago, such as Lancashire, Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. We still use the remnants of thee and thou so arta rait is phonetic for art thou (all) right? Me duck is a common greeting and some say duck derives from the Roman dux/ducis or leader. Ayup is a hangover from the Vikings and is still used in Scandinavia as something like Hey hoop.

@keithorbell8946 4 года назад

And Hertfordshire is pronounced Hartfordshire.

@inickedurnan941 4 года назад

You guys seem like such nice people, most Americans get deeply defensive about anything that contradicts what they’ve learnt in America, or at least they’re the ones who argue the loudest

@Emiikkoo 4 года назад

Der-Ham XD lol and nice to see you are using my trick ;) for shire :D

@LizOram 4 года назад

Great video- can tell the learning Is paying off! One big tip for putting them on the map- the Yorkshires are all close to each other

@Twittler1 4 года назад

Suffolk is definitely Suff euck. Google is wrong.

@WanderingRavens 4 года назад

Good to know! We were wondering about that!

@pauloconnor9522 4 года назад

And Feck is Irish not British!

@MrEaster619 4 года назад

@@WanderingRavens Yeah Norfolk and Suffolk are neighbouring counties. You guessed it Suffolk is south and Norfolk is north. The names come from the Angles from the North-folk & South-Folk. They both lay in East Anglia which is still used today for an area for example news coverage you have ITV East Anglia for a local news station. Although its not an enclosed county or district, more hear say as it used to be the kingdom of East Anglia

@jmj8596 4 года назад

cos Google is American lol 😂

@highpath4776 4 года назад

suffuk

@danielyeshe 4 года назад

Please do one of these for Wales!

@WanderingRavens 4 года назад

Next week! :D

@petervaughan9111 3 года назад

To help you understand the funky spelling research the vowel shift. Also, check out Jay Foreman's video on English town names like Frome

@jenniedarling3710 4 года назад

Yes Tyne and Wear are rivers in the North East of England near Newcastle.

@Mind-your-own-beeswax 4 года назад

They missed out Brigantia, Wessex, Votadini, Mercia etc. 😉😉

@chasm5556 3 года назад

Northumbria and east anglia

@mykeytoo 3 года назад

They also mixed eras in county names. Rutland became a part of Leicester in 1974 - at the same time the three Ridings of Yorkshire were lost, East Riding being reconstituted in 1996.

@firedrake7663 3 года назад

“Berk” is typically pronounced “Bark”, that is correct.

@amethyst1826 3 года назад

It's like Derby. They go to the Durby and we go to Darby! 😆😆

@nicholaskelly6375 3 года назад

Fire Drake Remember that at the end of 'Carry On Henry' Henry VIII (Sid James) proclaims Lord Hampton of Wick (Kenneth Connor) as The Prince of Berkshire with the following speech "Arise Prince of Berks"!

@MrRolandgent 3 года назад

Although “Berk” Comes from “Berkshire hunt “ we should say that someone is a Bark.

@xTurB0SnaKeY 2 года назад

I love you two! All the way from the UK

@YourBeingParanoid 4 года назад

Fab video - also, Newcastle upon Tyne (Geordieland) is in Tyne & Wear (both Tyne and Wear are rivers and also the words mean river) wayeyemanpet!

@Ilixie 4 года назад

looking forward to Leominster

@Twittler1 4 года назад

Ilixie pronounced by many as ‘Lem steur’

3 года назад

Or Wymondham...

@Twittler1 3 года назад

Pádraig Floyd Oh yeah, ‘windeum’. And then there’s Saxmundham - ‘Saxeum’.

@englishoutsidethebook5898 3 года назад

And Cleobury Mortimer while they're in the area.

@Lily_The_Pink972 3 года назад

Or Yeovilton!

@jasonyoung7705 4 года назад

If you ever go to Manchester, please pronounce it as 'Man-chester-shire", and remember to over pronounce the 'shire'. Even after they tell you that's wrong, keep doing it :-)

@Zentron 4 года назад

Dat is evil... as a life long resident of Manchester, I approve!

@WanderingRavens 4 года назад

😂😂 But I don't want to get stabbed

@jasonyoung7705 4 года назад

@@WanderingRavens Well that could be a concern. Well, there is a safeguard. if anyone in Manchester attacks you, the line "Your beetles are a great band", will surely soothe the aggressor. Also. NEVER DO THIS!

@Zentron 4 года назад

@@WanderingRavens Also there's an old statue of Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln Square, Manchester, of which there is some interesting history about and the ending of the civil war in America!

@AnOldGreyDog 4 года назад

You could always ask to visit Manchesterford and see the famous Acorn Antiques shop. Alternatively, go to Stretford, just south of Manchester and ask someone where Shakespeare's house is...

@jonsmith8582 4 года назад

Nailed it !

@polkadot8788 4 года назад

Try Shrewsbury...that's a tricky one. Even the locals can't settle on one pronunciation.

@WolfGratz 4 года назад

There is no right answer as you say.

@METALFREAK03 4 года назад

Also, a fact I actually learnt from Sleepy Hollow (an american tv drama show about a 18th century british redcoat (who was a traitor) and a town that had some weird scifi things happening to it) and I checked it out and it was correct. The reason why americans pronounce things differently is due to the English academics which wanted to further (or farther!) themselves away from the motherland (thats GB by the way) and so started over pronouncing everything. (in a sort of black adder-ish kind of way) Now add that in with Thomas's hatred for pompious aristoricracy and therefore created an entire new dictionary (webber? I think) and the fact that if you were caught having different pronounciations you were checked to be a spy from the motherland (the US civil war politics here), you get the reason why americans speak so 18th century. It's tilted a bit of course, but its actually very surprising how tight it is to the way we used to speak here. I find this stuff fascinating, its also why I say america is still owned/run by the british empire (1st british empire not the to be confused with the current second british empire (Victoria's empire)) as everything is like it was back then. Even the horrible bits, which I won't go into, avoid a political debate here.

@WanderingRavens 4 года назад

So fascinating! Thank you for sharing that bit of history with us! The evolution of English is a topic we'd both love to learn more about.

@tcroft2165 4 года назад

I just died a little at the thought we're now taking phonics from TV show! The er/ar is nothing more than common changes ongoing since the Great Vowel Shift

@tobeytransport2802 4 года назад

Sussex and Essex are near but don’t border!! My beautiful home county of Kent seperates Essex from sussex, from here I can go west across the river rother to east Sussex or north across the Thames into Essex or london

@WanderingRavens 4 года назад

Good to know! We want to visit Kent at some point and see how it compares to Washington's Kent haha 😂

@tobeytransport2802 4 года назад

Wandering Ravens I expect it was named after my Kent! I was born in Margate but other than the few weeks in the hospital (and holidays) I’ve lived in herne bay all my life (come here if you want but it’s a bit of a shithole, not too much of one though) deal is nice and is quite a nice traditional beach town (but unlike herne bay hasn’t been invaded by Londoners who make it crappy). Canterbury is good but very touristy. One good thing about Kent is that almost all of it is very accessible by trains from London (a lot of places are also on the high speed line)... it is lovely in Kent but you might want to do the research before you come some places aren’t to nice

@trickygoose2 4 года назад

@@tobeytransport2802 I thought Faversham was very nice and it has a brewery that is over 300 years old.

@neodigremo 4 года назад

And of course they are named that because they were the 2 of the main locations the Saxons settled when they arrived, along with Wessex (East Saxons, West Saxons and South Saxons becoming Essex, Wessex and Sussex) And Kent is beautiful. Unless you are from Gillingham. Gillingham is trash. Along with the rest of Medway. I would know. :)

@highpath4776 4 года назад

@@tobeytransport2802 Washington's Kent County could be named after a person

@nicoleonus 4 года назад

Best way to solve the clotted cream/jam conundrum? Put jam on one half, cream on the other and sandwich the two halves together. You just have to turn it one way or the other to have it your preferred way... (also a great excuse to put extra cream and jam on to account for the extra layer of scone on top!)

@Kay-vf8wu 4 года назад

We also have Derbys (horseracing) and we pronounce it Darby as well.

@acas8372 4 года назад

I think the reason why Americans sometimes struggle with British place names is that they don't always realise that the reason that they aren't pronounced predictably in modern English is because of the extensive history of competing languages and cultures within the British Isles which change from place to place. Middle English and Cornish as just two examples will have vastly different phonetics than modern English so these really old place names still use unused sounds. Nonetheless, you guys caught on super quickly I thought and guessed things really well! heres a quite simple wikipedia article on this history!: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toponymy_of_England

@MrTrull1 4 года назад

I’m glad my county gave you no problems (Somerset), although if you were local you’d pronounce it more like ‘Zummerrrzet’ - think how pirates speak. Their accent originated in the West Country (the best place in the whole of England, of course!). BTW, it continues to be a pleasure to watch Grace slowly sliding into madness. She even thinks she’s met all these people now. Aw, bless. 😂

@merrygoblin 4 года назад

I seem to recall the modern West Country accent is the closest nowadays to the 'standard' accent (if such a thing existed) as it was back in the times of Shakespeare. (Someone correct me if I'm wrong.) Shakespeare, Sir Francis Drake and his ilk spoke with what we'd hear now as something of a West Country accent. I think was before the Great Vowel Shift though, so the english of Shakespeare's time would sound very different to how it would sound today.

@okgrapefruit1191 4 года назад

And Grace, you are absolutely correct about the scone debate.

@thearmouredpenguin7148 4 года назад

@Wandering Ravens Just to add to the confusion, there are in effect two sets of county names. The Political/Administrative counties and the Ceremonial counties. The administrative counties were created in 1972 to reflect a more logical structure for the 20th century ( well at least in the eyes of the politicians ), hence you end up with counties like Tyne and Wear, Merseyside, the West Midlands and metropolitan boroughs like Greater Manchester, which effectively equate to counties ( kind of ). Many of the names for these new administrative areas were not popular. Some of these administrative counties have changed their names and borders faster than I can keep up with. Around 1997 many of the traditional county names were reintroduced as "Ceremonial Counties" aka "The Lieutenancy Areas of England" ( pronounced LEF-tenancy not LOO-tenancy ) and each county has a Lord Lieutenant, a representative of the monarch, and a purely ceremonial position. Of course these ceremonial counties should not be confused with the historic counties that existed prior to 1972. Now all you have to do is demonstrate your pronunciation skills with the Scottish, Welsh and N.Ireland counties.

@tonycasey3183 4 года назад

Definitely pronounced Barksher

@WanderingRavens 4 года назад

Noooo! We were wrong 😭😭

@redbeki 4 года назад

Or in West Midlands ...barksheer ..all the shers or shires are pronounced sheers by Brummies ...

@redbeki 4 года назад

Barksheer in Birmingham !

@tonycasey3183 4 года назад

So many different accents in the UK Which one of my comments will somebody say "Youre Wrong!"

@WanderingRavens 4 года назад

So many different accents!

@steve08717 4 года назад

@@WanderingRavens with the accents you have to bear each one of the counties was a separate tribe with its own tongue and not even the same root some are celtic some germanic overlay viking and norman french go back just 200 years and someone from yorkshire would need a translator to talk to someone in hampshire if you could find one in some of the border areas towns and villages would have trouble talking to each other its similar to the american indian tribes separated by a common tongue that evolved over to time to separate dialects

@richardperks7366 4 года назад

If you got back to the midlands - try bridgenorth and Bewdley. They are linked by the severn valley steam railway.

@josephwood4607 2 года назад

So excited you stayed in rugby and alcester (prononded ulster). I'm from Warwickshire and live in Worcester.

@amoranfilm 4 года назад

Being from Lincolnshire, the appreciation for the midlands made me happy xD

@adampoultney8737 3 года назад

Same from Leicestershire

@mscoop74 4 года назад

To be fair, there are quite a few of these that sound different depending on regional accents. x 😄

@carriehowlter6332 4 года назад

Haha, definitely. Everyone in Yorkshire says "shire" differently!

@ddemaine 3 года назад

Like Brizzle for instance ;)

@DramaticModels 4 года назад

Absolutely spot on with the rivers being Tyne and Wear. Wear is the better side though 😂

@liviagoldsmith8162 4 года назад

18:00 sounded like that old woman from bristol on the news saying “no, not another one”

@WanderingRavens 4 года назад

😂

@villafan3000 4 года назад

You guys did so well, nice one! I love that you guys stayed in the Midlands - Alcester is also in Warwickshire though! Greater London Vs City of London is a really interesting one - you guys should look it up. The city of London is really tiny (it's also called the square mile, well, you can guess why😉), has a really long history, and covers most of the financial district where all the banks and traders work. The rest of London (where almost everyone lives) is covered by Greater London! This is actually a really interesting one; because the City of London (the square mile) is a city, Westminster (where parliament and most government departments are) is a city, but 'London' as in the massive place where 8 million people live doesn't have city status! Greater Manchester covers Manchester and surrounding towns/cities (Wigan, Bolton, Stockport, etc.). The West Midlands is a bit similar but for Birmingham. Being from the west midlands, but not being from Birmingham, I can tell you that the name 'Greater Birmingham' would not have gone down well! These videos are great btw - keep it up!❤️

@anghinetti 4 года назад

Dan Simpson: 'London' (as you describe it) is Greater London, a ceremonial county created in 1965. The City of Westminster is, for administrative purposes, no more than a London borough but which also holds city status. The present London Borough of the City of Westminster was created in 1965, by the amalgamation of the Metropolitan boroughs of Westminster, Paddington and Saint Marylebone. The City of London also is a county in its own right.

@joegoout 4 года назад

Funny how UK geography works though, I think most people would say that Warwickshire is in the Midlands.

@ddemaine 3 года назад

Further to the excellent post above: West Midlands county was named after West Midlands Urban Area-- Birmingham and Black Country. The county also then tacked on Coventry. I can confirm Black Country and Cov folk wouldn't like have been associated with a Greater *Birmingham*!

@vampyboi438 4 года назад

Yey Shropshire I live there. I'm also studying at university in Shrewsbury, the town where Darwin was born. It was cool to learn about evolution in Darwin's own home town

@SonOfSalop 4 года назад

Floreat Salopia I'm at the uni there too XD

@unicyclist97 4 года назад

That sounds awesome. I know a fair bit about evolution but not much about Darwin.

@GreenBitterfly 4 года назад

Well done for guessing Tyne and Wear are rivers, although given Newcastle and Sunderland rivalry, it's best not to get them mixed up!

@Duchess_of_Cadishead 3 года назад

Definitely jam before the cream. I am from Manchester originally. And as with Derby, Hertford etc, we pronounce clerk as Clark.

@redbeki 4 года назад

Love the isle of wit..

@WanderingRavens 4 года назад

We do too! 😄

@ganjiblobflankis6581 4 года назад

Vowels tend to migrate backwards over the centuries. "Err" is forward of "Arr" The spelling was cemented long enough ago to be out of date. Give it time and it will be "Beckshire" etc, then "Bickshire". Focus on where you make the vowel sounds and you can see how "Ja" became "Yes" which is pronounced "Yis" in New Zealand.

@WanderingRavens 4 года назад

Thank you for enlightening us! Linguistics is fascinating :D

@RobertHeslop 4 года назад

16:45 - Correct on the rivers. My hometown is Newcastle-upon-Tyne and it sits upon the River Tyne, where our bridges are most notably the Tyne Bridge, which was built first and then the same construction company in question went on to build Sydney Harbour Bridge in Australia. The river at that part in our city centre is where we divide from Newcastle to the north and Gateshead to the south. The river also is presentable in other parts of the North East, like the river tyne flows outs of Tynemouth and South Shields into the North Sea. The next city south of us is Sunderland which sits upon the River Wear.

@steffiparsons 3 года назад

You stayed near Rugby? My lovely hometown!

@felicitydavies3227 4 года назад

Surprisingly Google translate got them all right in pronunciation. Would love to see you both do one based off the counties of Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland and see how Google translate interprets them to sound 😂. Also I'm pretty sure that Yorkshire is split up into so many places because when the vikings came to the UK, they pretty much took over the Yorkshire area and that whole part of England was split between the English and the Danes, due to Danw law. So I think that's the reason why it has so many counties. Great video like always 😊

@WanderingRavens 4 года назад

Thank you!! We're so glad you enjoyed it :D And wish us luck - we're doing Welsh counties next week and Scottish the week after!

@felicitydavies3227 4 года назад

@@WanderingRavens Good luck. Most are not too bad, but some of them may look very intimidating. Just to help you out a bit in Welsh w and y are vowels and the y usually makes sounds like an I. Double d usually makes a th sound, double L is the sound you make when your trying to get something out of your throat. Rh is also kind of a th sound, Ph makes an f sound, but double F makes a v sound. Just remember that your probably looking at the English version of the name of the county so it's a bit easier then their Welsh names 😊. Just a few Welsh pointers to help pronunciation if you can't understand why some letters are together and as some people say it looks like someone has hit their head on a keyboard 😂.

@tonywalton1464 4 года назад

Oh yes! Let's hear "Kirkcudbright"

@mdwellington 4 года назад

@@felicitydavies3227 'Double L is the sound you make when your trying to get something out of your throat.' 🤣🤣🤣 It's funny cos it's true.

@felicitydavies3227 4 года назад

@@mdwellington I don't think there is any other way to explain how to make that noise. It is literally doing that while also rolling your tongue at the same time. 😂

@tiredofbaddrivers 4 года назад

'Shire' pronounced 'shu' (short as in 'huff') not 'shurrrr'.

@clairemanning5334 3 года назад

Are you from up north? Further south (I’m from Suffolk), we pronounce it more like shear.

@apse2645 3 года назад

I'm from Wiltshire (and now Gloucestershire) and say "shur", as many people do. Some people might say "shu" (especially if "well spoken"), but the accent in the SW is rhotic so the R gets its time 👍

@idlecleric 4 года назад

You got Northumberland right! Pre Norman Conquest, there was a Saxon kingdom covering land North of the (river) Humber: Northumbria 😁

@4dra 4 года назад

Isle of Wight is a small island off the south coast

@fernweh9316 4 года назад

If you ever come to cornwall let me know and we'll go for a pint and i can give you the lowdown on cornish history. Lots of pirates, smugglers, mines, sea exploration, and ancient celtic stuff. I'm biased because i'm from here but its fucking cool

@WanderingRavens 4 года назад

We'll take you up on that!!

@Steve14ps 4 года назад

@@WanderingRavens But can you pronounce 'Mousehole'?

@anglewoden 4 года назад

@@Steve14ps I bet they can't even tell the difference between a Donkey and an arse. lol

@tonycasey3183 4 года назад

Did you say soft Rs or sort arse?

@WanderingRavens 4 года назад

Soft Rs. But do Brits have soft arses too? 😂

@lewiswilson6892 4 года назад

@@WanderingRavens is that your standard chat up line? Lol

@tonycasey3183 4 года назад

@@WanderingRavens Wouldn't YOU like to know!

@rogerk3954 4 года назад

There is also a River Wear, south of the Tyne

@rogerk3954 4 года назад

There's a song about the Tyne: Fog On The Tyne ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tm_KZSYSiGc.html Newer version with Gazza, a footballer ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-T1urq4Vb0XM.html

@maggie2759 4 года назад

I like the way you say Berkshire!. I live in kent and that isn't that far away from me. All home counties of london..

@TemeBriel 4 года назад

I am going to say the correct way with a scone is jam first then clotted cream

@WanderingRavens 4 года назад

Grace applauds!!

@DwayneRichards 4 года назад

And if you prefer it the other way round, turn the scone upside down

@wencireone 4 года назад

Yes because you can spread the jam and dollop of cream 👍Mmmmmm cream

@thearmouredpenguin7148 4 года назад

Sorry that's just wrong.

@Twittler1 4 года назад

Jimmy Bagshaw Heathen!

@nicholaskemp2246 4 года назад

Merseyside, where the scousers live!

@krisoliver6202 4 года назад

‘Tyne and Wear...Maybe these are both rivers’....nicely guessed!

@aaa11128 4 года назад

11:47 Lincolnshire is a great place to visit!!

@variousliz1476 4 года назад

Well done Eric for getting Herefordshire right. Plus i live in the West Midlands and there is a lot of thing you still have not seen there. Plus a big thumbs up to remembering how to pronounce Worcestershire. There is no right or wrong way to eat a scone. Devon does it one way and Cornwall another and they keep arguing about it. I eat mine the Cornwall way as i prefer it that way.

@WanderingRavens 4 года назад

Thank you! We're getting better and better at speaking English 😄

@stayforthepeelpronpls4774 4 года назад

Ay fellow West Midlands

@mdwellington 4 года назад

Devon are wrong though. 🤣🤣🤣

@seejaybee71 4 года назад

West Midlands is confusing - it's both a county, *and* a region that includes several counties, only one of which is the West Midlands county. Alcester, where you stayed, is in the West Mids *region* by virtue of being in Warwickshire, but not in the West Mids *county*, which is where you find Coventry, Birmingham and Wolverhampton (I do pronounce the "h", BTW). And for Americans who don't know where the West Midlands are, tell them that Stratford-on-Avon is there and they might start to get it.