How Did The Counties Of England Get Their Names?

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SOURCES AND FURTHER READING
Ceremonial Counties Of England: www.streetlist.co.uk/towns/
Cornwall: www.cornwalls.co.uk/history#:....
Devon: www.devonlive.com/news/devon-...
Somerset: www.etymonline.com/word/somerset
Bristol: www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/br...
Dorset: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorset
Shire: www.etymonline.com/word/shire
Wiltshire: www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Wilton
Berkshire: www.etymonline.com/word/berks...
Hampshire: www.localhistories.org/names.html
Isle of Wight: www.visitisleofwight.co.uk/in....
Surrey: www.etymonline.com/word/Surre...
London: londonist.com/2014/01/how-lon...
Essex: www.etymonline.com/word/Essex...
Hertfordshire: greenwichmeantime.com/uk/engl...
Buckingham: www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Buc....
Oxford: www.etymonline.com/word/Oxfor...
Gloucestershire: www.etymonline.com/search?q=g...
Herefordshire: www.etymonline.com/word/Heref...
Worcestershire: www.etymonline.com/word/Worce...
Warwickshire: www.etymonline.com/word/Warwi...
Northampton: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northam...
Bedfordshire: web.archive.org/web/201512080...
Cambridgeshire: www.varsity.co.uk/features/8856
Norfolk: www.etymonline.com/word/Norfolk
Suffolk: www.etymonline.com/word/Suffo...
Rutland: epns.nottingham.ac.uk/browse/...
Leicester: www.etymonline.com/word/Leice...
West Midlands: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Mi...)
Shropshire: www.etymonline.com/word/Shrew...
Cheshire: www.etymonline.com/word/Chesh...
Derbyshire: www.etymonline.com/search?q=d...
Lincolnshire: www.etymonline.com/word/Linco...
Yorkshire: www.etymonline.com/word/York#...
Manchester: www.etymonline.com/word/Manch...
Merseyside: www.etymonline.com/word/Merse...
Lancashire: www.etymonline.com/word/Lanca...
Cumbria: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbria...
Durham: www.etymonline.com/word/durham
Tyne and Wear: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyne_an...
Northumberland: www.etymonline.com/word/north...

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@NameExplain 3 года назад

What county are you watching from? Anyone else in West Sussex!?

@windmillwilly 3 года назад

No.

@4n0ngaming 3 года назад

@@windmillwilly ok

@tylerscott1216 3 года назад

Seams kinda sus

@dabtican4953 3 года назад

Where's Middlesex? :( Is it actually not a county anymore? It says so on wikipedia but everyone still calls it middlesex and we still write it on letters and stuff

@eoghanbannon-wright5689 3 года назад

Merseyside, Liverpool to be precise

@MrRQBQ 3 года назад

England historically was divided into tax areas known as 'shires' The people responsible for collecting these taxes were officials know as 'reeves' These 'shire reeves' eventually became known as 'sheriffs'

@Kingstanding23 10 месяцев назад

🤯

@ARCtheCartoonMaster 8 месяцев назад

Dang, and to think nowadays, the term "sheriff" is associated with the Wild West nowadays. Granted, I won't be surprised if Disney's take on the Sheriff of Nottingham is a play on both types of sheriff.

@secktorichah 3 года назад

Berkshire is pronounced barkshire. Also derby is pronounced darby

@deathmisser85 3 года назад

I cringe when people say Derby as Derby not Darby.

@secktorichah 3 года назад

@Sir Knight Errant Mate I’m English

@deathmisser85 3 года назад

@Sir Knight Errant and so I'm I and I do care because I'm from Derby.

@WaterShowsProd 3 года назад

I was quite surprised when he pronounced Derby like that.

@deathmisser85 3 года назад

@@WaterShowsProd Same.

@CaptainTowll 3 года назад

An Englishman mispronouncing Derbyshire is unacceptable

@DAviation179 3 года назад

I don't think he's English

@charliebeecham5063 3 года назад

@@DAviation179 he said he is

@DAviation179 3 года назад

@@charliebeecham5063 Doesn't mean he is.

@007mrdarcy 3 года назад

Sounds like a robot voice to me...

@TheseUseless 3 года назад

The fuck does Derbyshire even do, anymore?

@daryltedstone9221 3 года назад

The University of Warwick is not in Warwick, it's in Coventry.

@christopherwood9009 3 года назад

live in warwiskshire and didnt even know that

@AbbasAdejonwo 3 года назад

@Peter B Warwick University remains within Coventry City Council but I believe Coventry used to be within Warwickshire before the county (as opposed to region) of the West Midlands became a thing

@Edward234 3 года назад

Also, can't believe he said the university is the most well known thing in the county and not Shakespeare's birthplace!

@haalstaag 3 года назад

The old Warwick Ambulance service used to staff the Ambiance sent to Coventry City football games....now it’s part of the bigger West Midlands Ambulance service

@Myrtle2911 3 года назад

Cause that makes sense.

@kuyaleinad4195 3 года назад

Take a shot everytime Patrick mispronounces a county 😂 (Seriously though I’d normally give a pass for mispronunciations but you live here 🤷‍♂️😂)

@Ol.M-C 3 года назад

Try the London boroughs video, you'd be plastered by the end

@t.a.k.palfrey3882 3 года назад

Yes, it is difficult to credit he is English at all. He pronounces so many placenames as someone from West Virginia might. This whole thing undermines the validity of his videos, though his facts are generally en point.

@oliverwortley3822 3 года назад

@Legal Vampire thissss. it’s ‘darby’ not ‘derby’. it’s not said how it’s spelt 😭😭 really pissed me off

@oliverwortley3822 3 года назад

EXACTLY ! What excuse does he have, he lives here

@merrymermaid 3 года назад

he even mispronounced Tolkien as tolk-in when it’s tolk-een

@oswald7597 3 года назад

The Humber isn't actually that close to Northumberland, it's actually in the south of modern day Yorkshire. This is because Northumberland used to control much more land than is part of its modern day territory. Pretty much all land from coast to coast between the River Humber and Lothian.

@Chebab-Chebab 3 года назад

I'm worried about how he'll pronounce Kent.

@jonathanwhite460 3 года назад

i think i missed norfuck and suffuck

@rogantoad2571 3 года назад

Kent reminds me of the place in gta outside of los santos city. It's like that but for london

@DanceswithDustBunnies 2 года назад

Good question, since Kent and Cant of Canterbury are from the same root. 🤔

@MD-tv5fp Год назад

the Berkshire Hunt is rhyming slang that you'll have to imagine, and which got shortened to the insult Berk.

@Chebab-Chebab Год назад

@@DanceswithDustBunnies 'Cent' (hard C) was the original spelling. Canterbury means borough of Kent. Cent was named after the Cantiaci tribe.

@webspaghetti 3 года назад

Was this made with one of those automated text to voice things? It's the only explanation for someone from England mispronouncing Derby.

@veryblocky 3 года назад

And Berkshire, and Tyne and Wear

@wilsav 3 года назад

This fella says he’s English?

@TheseUseless 3 года назад

Eh, who cares about the counties of yesteryear? Most of 'em don't do much, in the present day, and are unlikely to do much in the future.

@petlamb2689 3 года назад

Lol Tyne and "where". It's pronounced Tyne and "Weir"

@IndiBrony 3 года назад

Tyne and Weeee-a!

@DC-iw9ug 3 года назад

I nearly spat my tea out when I hear WEAR and not WEIR

@perovwellyz560 3 года назад

@Comerade Dan I was born and have lived for 60 years in Durham and I have never heard anyone pronounce it 'Wear', it is always pronounced 'Wier'

@kierantaylor6452 3 года назад

@Comerade Danhe either doesn't pronounce it like that or he does not live in the north east, id bet money he does not live anywhere near the wear or the tyne if he pronounces it like that

@ginzy123 3 года назад

I was literally coming to comment the exact same thing! Haha

@cb-gill9423 3 года назад

This video is very interesting. I'm from Barbados and as you may know, many parts of our island are named after parts of the UK. So learning of the origins and meanings of these names are interesting. I'm looking forward to you covering the other parts of the U.K. Keep up the good work!

@neilcaress9036 3 года назад

He did mispronounce some of them which people can be very touchy about! Berkshire and Derbyshire are pronounced Barkshire and Darbyshire. Tyne and Wear is pronounced Tyne and Weir

@caroleast9636 3 года назад

It’s a great to learn and I applaud you for that, but with any research, always consider that some sources may have got it wrong themselves!

@kiwiSTV 3 года назад

The Mersey is the historic boundary between Lancashire and Cheshire, not Wales, that’s the Dee.

@peterallman8474 3 года назад

You're right of course, but I'm sure the use of Mersey for a boundary pre-dates that and goes back to the days of it being the frontier between the kingdoms of Northumbria and Mercia. Which in turn got the name for being the border to Wales.

@bigman2890 3 года назад

What counties class as the north?

@christianfreedom-seeker934 2 года назад

Ha ha ha you unwitting knave! You just disturbed that great dragon of "where the actual hell is Wales boundry?" And most would argue that the real boundary is Offa's Dike.

@DrivermanO Месяц назад

@@peterallman8474 I thought that too!

@DrivermanO Месяц назад

@@bigman2890 Anything north of London! Ha ha

@AlisonBryen 3 года назад

I've never heard Wolverhampton been referred to as a popular city before! For the record Wolverhampton is historically part of Staffordshire. Birmingham and Coventry are historically part of Warwickshire.

@cketts8128 3 года назад

Watching this, I wasn’t altogether sure the narrator actually came from England!!!!! The way Derbyshire and Berkshire was said was wrong! It’s ‘barkshire’ and ‘darbyshire’..... Also the narrator said that (I think it was when he got as far as Leicestershire) he said that ‘now we come to a county with ‘cester’ in it but he had already had Worcester. And then we have Tyne and Wear...which he pronounced like ‘where’ and it should be ‘wee-err’. The narrator’s accent was slightly ‘put on’ as well as though trying to sound posh. All very odd........

@Kishgofu 3 года назад

it is odd! I thought the same. sounds very disingenuous. The way he speaks is so fucking annoying too. Slurring his words and not articulating. It is almost as if he's not british and putting on the accent to try and gain some kind of authority over the bad information he spouts.

@rjfaber1991 3 года назад

We'd actually already had Worcester ánd Gloucester by the time he got to Leicester...

@Derry_Aire 3 года назад

He fails badly at trying to sound posh too as he says 'wiv' instead of 'with' a few times.

@TheseUseless 3 года назад

No- That's just how he speaks. And he mispronounces a bunch of irrelevant counties, so sad. The fuck is Derbyshire doing to progress society as a whole? And the use of the phrase "Now we come to a" doesn't inherently imply that's the first encounter, just AN encounter.

@DrivermanO Месяц назад

@@veryblocky Well I do, and I don't speak like that. And I know how to pronounce Derby, Berkshire, Tyne and Wear etc!

@tristacker 3 года назад

God help us when he tries to pronounce Welsh county names.

@nickyleighton3766 3 года назад

Thou he couldn't pronounce Berkshire correctly, its pronounced " Barksire " not Berkshire

@pavlovsdog5020 3 года назад

@@nickyleighton3766 tyne and where? Doesnt explain that northumberland is over 100 miles north of the humber nor why this is

@villageintheshire 3 года назад

I couldn't understand some of his pronunciation of everyday words

@seanjennings8383 3 года назад

Clown

@annamcuthbert3993 3 года назад

Love it 🤣🤣

@richardplester 3 года назад

Shameful that an English man gets so many place name pronunciations wrong, especially when the channel is about names! Poor effort

@JoeHetherington 3 года назад

I thought the same lol embarrassing

@philipm06 3 года назад

He can't even pronounce 'Dickhead'.

@CharlieFlemingOriginal 3 года назад

Pissed me off how awful it was.

@AndrewRobinson-ee7um 3 года назад

What a fun lot you are......

@CharlieFlemingOriginal 3 года назад

@@AndrewRobinson-ee7um AS if you wouldn't get annoyed if someone mispronounced your name...

@eoghanbannon-wright5689 3 года назад

Yes I've been waiting long for this video that I suggested I'm very happy that you listened. Thanks Patrick :)

@sheaballard3022 3 года назад

I believe I also suggested it at some point. I’m glad Patrick reads our comments.

@Sarah-nd2gy 3 года назад

I gave up. Your mispronunciations of place names would be barely forgivable if an American was doing this video, but for an Englishman its just shocking, particularly when you are here to explain what the place names mean

@AS-mw6pw 2 года назад

I’ve watched a few videos from this channel and he makes a lot of pronunciation mistakes. It wouldn’t usually matter, but his channel is literally called ‘Name Explain’ and the fact he makes these basic pronunciation errors makes you question how true the actual facts are. Could really do with sending the video to an expert, or really anyone to check for mistakes before it goes out. He must have been the only person to see this video before it went out because I don’t know one person who pronounces it ‘dur-bee’ in England. It’s a shame because the videos really well put together

@markwalker2627 2 года назад

Just come across this and what a load of mistakes and mis-pronounciations its embarrassing really- you cannot be English surely???

@MrOffTrail 2 года назад

Dude, I’m an American and even I know Derby is pronounced “Darby”. Very suspicious.

@no15minutecities 2 года назад

British!!

@mikemiller1646 3 года назад

England: "huge expanses of land..." Canada and Australia: "Amused smile"

@shirleymental4189 3 года назад

Mike Miller. Ha Ha. True. We in the UK don't understand vast distances. If I have a 3 hour car journey you'd think I was crossing the Sahara. What these other countries including the US don't understand though, is time. Had a conversation with an American once who stated proudly: 'we have houses a hundred years old'. I laughed. 'Mate, I've got fucking door knobs older'. A school not far from me was founded in the 15 hundreds. that blows their mind,

@mikemiller1646 3 года назад

Shirley Mental I have a joke for you on the general topic of relative sizes. A guy from Texas was up in Vermont and he got talking with a farmer. The Texan started bragging about how much bigger his ranch was compared to the Vermonter's farm. "My ranch is so big I can get in my truck and drive for an hour and never leave my property". The Vermonter replied "Ayut, I once had a truck like that too". Cheers!

@demonking86420 3 года назад

Also Canada and Australia: wait why are you dumping your convicts here Britain?

@shirleymental4189 3 года назад

@@demonking86420 because we lost America

@TheseUseless 3 года назад

Ah, yes. I too like to proclaim "Amused smile" when somebody says something funny.

@andythompson904 3 года назад

A pity that an Englishman was unable to pronounce all the names properly.

@russophile9874 3 года назад

Why don't y'all spell your town names the way it's supposed to be pronounced? What's the point of all the misleading spellings?

@yorkshireako134 3 года назад

@@russophile9874 Because that’s how they are historically spelt and we pronounce them correctly. Why don’t you learn to speak and spell English correctly 😉

@therealcrab 3 года назад

agreed on all fronts. I was born in W Midlands, lived as a kid down south and moved to Yorkshire for the last twenty years. Our host needs to get out of the Home Counties a bit...

@russophile9874 3 года назад

@@yorkshireako134 you learn to pronounce them correctly because that's where you grew up. If you want other people to the same, change the historical spellings. It's not a big deal. Many of those historical counties have been destroyed and new ones were created. Changing the spellings is not a stretch. If you don't want to change the spellings, don't get pissed when its inevitably mispronounced by non-natives.

@yorkshireako134 3 года назад

@@russophile9874 if you’re to lazy to learn the correct pronunciation don’t worry. Why would we change our history to suit others? Because they can’t be bothered to learn. Class it as personal development. Not a big deal.

@frankb3347 3 года назад

Sending my love to all the Ford places coming from a town named PigFord in German.

@simonh6371 3 года назад

We have a Kingswinford in Staffordshire, would be Koenigsschweinfurt in German.

@frankb3347 3 года назад

@@simonh6371 That's funny. I'm just from regular Schweinfurt. It was an Imperial free city though. Which was a pretty good thing in the old days.

@webhead66 3 года назад

Right back at you, from Bradford in Yorkshire ("the place of the broad ford")

@oufc90 3 года назад

Love from Oxfordshire

@dcarbs2979 3 года назад

There a few towns called simply Ford (Complete name, no prefix). One is next to Arundel in his home county of West Sussex.

@krackenkiller9286 3 года назад

How did he pronounce so many County names incorrectly.

@benjaminoverton7702 3 года назад

Sorry Patrick, but you got a few pronunciations wrong: Derbyshire/Derby - Dar-bee Tyne and Wear - Tyne and Weir Berkshire - Bark-shire Otherwise, great video. Thanks!

@Rgsetters 3 года назад

Also was a bit strange hearing Oxford pronounced in such a weird way

@Locomattive8572 3 года назад

Northampton is a town too.

@connie1wilson 3 года назад

I have noticed a lot of English RU-vidr’s can’t pronounce words correctly, words that they should know!

@GarethBlears 3 года назад

Also, Cymru is pronouced as 'Cum-ree'. I've listened to it 3 times now and I'm still not sure how he says it!

@WELLBRAN 3 года назад

and much more wrong!

@SavannahPhillipss 3 года назад

9:28 ‘this is the first city where we’ve seen the cester/Chester suffix’ ehhh but you just spoke about Worcestershire and Gloucestershire haha

@mizzyroro 3 года назад

You are so beautiful.

@peterallman8474 3 года назад

Yup, coming from Chester, I noticed that. But more excusable than his "Burk"-shire, "Dur-by" and Tyne and "Where", I thought. He's not a Brit is he.

@zeina8631 3 года назад

@@peterallman8474 ayy Chester fam Yeah that’s proper annoying I’ll shut up now

@deathmisser85 3 года назад

It's Darby not Derby btw.

@christopherwood9009 3 года назад

he said something more like

@izmirs. 3 года назад

If its darby, why is it spelt as derby

@jasongarfitt1147 3 года назад

@@izmirs. look into a linguistics event known as "the great vowel shift" to find out

@russophile9874 3 года назад

@@jasongarfitt1147 you can still change the spelling of the place names. It's not that hard. If you want people to pronounce it as Darby, change the spelling to Darby.

@jasongarfitt1147 3 года назад

@@russophile9874 except it was a gradual thing and by time people noticed it was too ingrained and stubborn people don't like change

@RealCT 3 года назад

Very interesting, thank you. The one thing I just want to point out is that the University of Warwick is not located in the Town of of Warwick in Warwickshire, it is actually located in Coventry in the West Midlands. But Coventry used to be in the "City in Shakespeare's County", but Coventry was separated and bunged in to the West Midlands. Although some suburban areas of Coventry do come under Warwickshire and some come under the town of Solihull.

@bobtekkas2734 3 года назад

The Wear in Tyne and Wear is pronounced like weir

@MrIanMason 3 года назад

I went to the comments because I was curious about pronunciation. Did not disappoint.

@verisimilitudeteller 3 года назад

Me too, and I'm American. :)

@moroccangeographer8993 3 года назад

More knowledge about my favourite country in the world is always a blessing. Thank you so much.

@LewisSkinner 3 года назад

Worried that a native can't pronounce "Berkshire", "Shrewsbury", or "Derby" correctly. Also, having mentioned Sussex and Essex, you could've at least mentioned Middlesex.

@UKChrisC 3 года назад

To be fair on Shrewsbury, I live not to far away from it and most people still get it wrong

@LewisSkinner 3 года назад

@@UKChrisC unsurprised... The football club don't help, with their nickname. 🙄

@calum5975 3 года назад

Middlesex unfortunately was gobbled up by the County of London to form Greater London (Herts and Surrey got some too). Doesn't exist, although some people still identify with it. Actually the County of London was formed from Middlesex too in the 1800s, so, a rogue part of Middlesex outgrew Middlesex and then ate up the rest.

@andyt8216 3 года назад

The Wear in Tyne and Wear isn't pronounced as he did either, It's closer to "we are". Plus the Humber is not a nearby river to Northumberland. I think he's on a C- for all of this.

@LewisSkinner 3 года назад

@@calum5975 I know the history of Middlesex, I just thought a throwaway line to the effect of "and of course like the East and South Saxons, we have the Middle Saxons of Middlesex, since gobbled up by the County of London, but whose name lives on in the Middlesex County Cricket Club" Maybe as follow-up about former Counties would be good? Including the likes of Westmorland, Cumberland, Avon, Cleveland etc?

@jhiyabrooks1166 3 года назад

Worcester, in Worcestershire is also a Roman fortified settlement, with the name being 'Weorgorna Ceaster", or "Roman fortified settlement of the people of the winding river', in reference to the River Severn that runs through it. Also 'Berkshire' is pronounced as 'Barkshire', and 'Derby' is pronounced as 'Darby'.

@Psyk60 3 года назад

Berkshire is pronounced more like Bark-shire. Seems weird you didn't know that considering you live pretty close to it! Known for sheep? I grew up in Berkshire and that's a new one to me! I'd say Berskhire is best known for Windsor castle.

@alyssakira8320 3 года назад

Yeah that pronunciation is way off. Only people I've heard say "Berk" and not "Bark" is Americans.

@andyalder7910 3 года назад

@@alyssakira8320 Americans probably pronounce it that way because of Berkshire Hathaway.

@tdawson198 3 года назад

He also pronounced Torquay as "tor-kay" rather than "tor-key"

@andyalder7910 3 года назад

@@tdawson198 listen again. he said Torbay, the unitary authority comprised of the towns surrounding Tor Bay.

@davidwright7193 3 года назад

It is very definitely Berk not bark in east London, though Jeremy is replacing Berk in this use...

@sohopedeco 3 года назад

In the Brazilian version of Lord of the Rings, "the Shire" was translated as "o Condado" (the county).

@darthsawlex8257 3 года назад

Interesting, no word for Shire in Portuguese then?

@sohopedeco 3 года назад

@@darthsawlex8257 As far as I'm aware, no.

@seilaessecanalnvaitervideo6414 3 года назад

ae um br

@seilaessecanalnvaitervideo6414 3 года назад

@@darthsawlex8257 why we would need a word to describe a uk conty? like its too specific its easyer to just have conty (sorry if it dont make sense its beacause of what i searched shire mean a uk conty)

@michaelgreen1515 3 года назад

Not all "Counties" are "Counties" Durham, Lancashire, and Cheshire being the best examples. I believe a Shire was an area where a number of fighting troups were assembled from originally, over time this changed. The Soke of Peterborough also failed to get a mention!

@SDE1994 3 года назад

The name ridings of East/West/North Yorkshire were still commonly used up to recently except South which didnt exist and was part of West until 1974 when the ridings where also dropped

@RobertGrif 3 года назад

In Canada, a "Riding" is an electoral district from where a member of the Canadian Parliament is elected.

@mellonmarshall 3 года назад

if my history memory holds right, back in the 18th century MPs in the England also ran for ridings or something like that

@michaelgreen1515 3 года назад

@@mellonmarshall that was only because of the division of Yorkshire. It is norse for Yriding (the Y as in Ye tea shop meaning and sounding as the, so Thriding). A Thriding was a third, in other parts of England you have Thredlings, a similar Anglo-norse derivation.

@melanyebaggins 3 года назад

Another Canadian here and I thought it was neat to know where the term originated and how it's related to what it's used for in Canada, being part of the commonwealth.

@uptoncriddington6939 3 года назад

Riding in Canada started to be used when counties in what is now the province of Ontario were divided for the purpose of electoral representation. This was borrowed from the English division of England’s largest county into ridings. Why ridings? Well the explanation makes sense when one realises that there were only three of them, not four, named for three of the four compass directions, North, West, and East, but omitting South because the word was originally Thirding, meaning a third measure, though their sizes varied.

@DaveBartlett 3 года назад

@@uptoncriddington6939 Since Yorkshire can't technically be divided into ridings anymore, since there are now 4 parts and not 3, Perhaps we should take our lead from Tolkien and name them 'Farthings'.

@prussia8845 3 года назад

The University Of Warwick is actually located in the outskirts of Coventry, West Midlands.

@JackHadders 3 года назад

Came here looking for this comment

@200swilson 3 года назад

Indeed - the university was named after the county rather than the town of Warwick (Coventry is historically part of Warwickshire). Technically half of the university sits in the West Midlands and the other half in Warwickshire if you look at a map.

@Cdr_Mansfield_Cumming 3 года назад

@@200swilson Not when it was first built. It used to be Canley College and the main buildings were/are on the right hand side as you go up Kirby Corner Road. The entire University is on CV4, Coventry postcode. There's a barrier along Cryfield Woods that's the City's boundary, if you come down Kenilworth Road to the end of the wooded area where the countryside opens up into farmers fields (that's until they tore it all up for HS2). On the other side going up Westwood Heath Road, you hit Cromwell Lane before heading to Burton Green and then you hit Warwickshire.

@samclark3085 3 года назад

The constant mispronunciation in the video drove me crazy! I am from Northumberland, but I knew that Berkshire, Derbyshire and Tyne & Wear were all said wrong! There is also some wrong/incomplete information. I'm sure it doesn't take a genius to work out that Manchester has "chester" and is therefore a Roman name meaning town. I've followed this channel for years now but the content quality is becoming increasingly poor.

@DanceswithDustBunnies 2 года назад

Hell, I'm from Texas and it drove ME crazy. I'm one of the few Yanks who actually know how to pronounce these names--or I ask LOL I'm wondering though, if this is an example of American English (a misnomer if I ever heard one) shoving British English out because of TV. 🤔

@mcallisterwill 3 года назад

With Yorkshire, only the East Riding approximately corresponds to one of the old ridings of Yorkshire, which is why it is still referred to as a riding. North, South and West Yorkshire have quite different boundaries to the old North and West Ridings (the West Riding included the Pennines and Dales as well as the cities of Leeds, Bradford and Sheffield.

@EllFell0_0 3 года назад

Chill, east yorkshire dosnt matter that much, u dont need to go on a rant about it . I mean i get yorkshire pride and all that but chill

@mcallisterwill 3 года назад

@@EllFell0_0 lol Im not even from Yorkshire, how dare you

@EllFell0_0 3 года назад

@@ianhalsall-fox ?

@EllFell0_0 3 года назад

@@ianhalsall-fox I didn't know Filey used to be in the east riding, the more ya know. Do u know any facts about Scarborough?

@EllFell0_0 3 года назад

@@ianhalsall-fox I didn't know that either

@michaeljones7465 3 года назад

An Englishman who can't pronounce English place names! What are they teaching in schools these days?

@deenfurgsz6806 3 года назад

Smart Alec clever-bollocksness..!

@langdalepaul 3 года назад

They’re not, that’s the problem. I don’t suppose any schoolchild has received a single lesson on British counties for decades. The syllabus is too full of gender studies and diversity.

@FordForTheWin 3 года назад

i was going to post the same thing! at least he pronounced shrewsbury correctly

@michaeljones7465 3 года назад

@@FordForTheWin I like listening to people who argue over the pronunciation of Shrewsbury. I know people who live there & even they can't agree. I prefer Shroozbree to Shrowzbree.

@FordForTheWin 3 года назад

@@michaeljones7465 its pretty much a class thing if you are posh its shrow.

@bonecanoe86 3 года назад

Half the counties in PA: *Write that down, write that down!*

@masterimbecile 3 года назад

And Massachusettes lol

@aabidn275 3 года назад

😂 it’s because we named them!

@LedosKell 3 года назад

They legitimately wanted all of the counties given tribute in North America/New England.

@pissa_tv5489 3 года назад

Exactly what I was thinking, although I doubt there is a Lackawannashire, England

@islandgirl9479 3 года назад

@@masterimbecile that's what I said. I'm from Dochester, Massachusetts live off Dorchester Avenue....😁

@CORKALOT 3 года назад

Great video! As a Yorkshireman living abroad (born in West [Leeds] and growing up in East Riding [Goole]) this was very insightful and refreshing. Would love for you to go more into the history of York and the Viking conquest which gave it its name (Jorvik).

@andyt8216 3 года назад

Exactly, apparently the Roman name of Eborcaum meant Yew Tree place, York is from Jorvik, as you say.

@pedanticradiator1491 3 года назад

Goole is historically in the West Riding but is now administratively in the East

@ulrikschackmeyer848 3 года назад

The Viking name was Jorwik, something like 'eoarh wik' that is 'wild boars' bay/i let', thus York.

@pedanticradiator1491 3 года назад

The Roman Eboracum became the Anglo-Saxon Eorfwik which became the Danish or Norse Jorvik then eventually through many alternate spellings the modern English York. The Normans at first called the city Everwic or Everoui. The Roman name did mean yew tree place at first the Angles just took their name from the Romans but later it meant wild boar village

@larana7464 3 года назад

Calls himself name explain but mispronounces them all

@jamieetherington7614 3 года назад

Northumberland was huge back in the day and stretched all the way down to the river Humber in Kingston upon Hull. That’s where Northumberland got it’s name NORTH OF THE HUMBER LAND!!

@markshere1022 3 года назад

And just to clarify, Worcester is a city NOT a town, and Northampton is a town, NOT a city...

@kuyaleinad4195 3 года назад

Glad to hear that you’ve used the royalty free music CGP used for his UK video 😂 I’ve been so used to it that it feels weird to hear it in a non-uk video 🤷‍♂️

@jackmason7823 3 года назад

Correction: pronounced 'Darby'. A not E. But spelled with an E. You made that mistake elsewhere in the video as well.

@alfiehaigh8412 3 года назад

It's interesting mentioning how counties can still be split further sometimes. I'm from Redcar (near Middlesbrough) so we're technically part of North Yorkshire, but we wouldn't consider ourselves typical Yorkshiremen, and have more in common with county Durham and Tyne and Wear, because our accents are much more similar to the further north east than to a Yorkshire accent. We end up usually calling our region "Redcar and Cleveland". Also just a side note, the river wear is pronounced like wee-er, rather than like wear as in wearing clothes. Regardless, great video! All of these etymologies were really interesting Edit (thanks to James lee): Redcar and Cleveland often gets called teesside most often, then Redcar and Cleveland second most

@eelsemaj99 3 года назад

Not to forget tyneside and teeside

@michaelgreen1515 3 года назад

Accents though disappearing are very localised. It used to be possible to pinpoint a rural person to within 7 miles. The closest I ever saw this was on an over 60's mystery tour (I was on it as most of them were great aunts and uncles or cousins), on the return we popped in a chip shop and the man correctly identified us from within 2 miles of our village despite being about 14 miles away just by the accent.

@alfiehaigh8412 3 года назад

@@michaelgreen1515 yeah obviously with transport being much more of a thing, hearing other, more dominant accents more often through media etc. Local accents are slowly fading. There is a possibility that there will end up being a "general northern accent" rather than distinct ones as is the case across much of the North currently

@ianbennett1491 3 года назад

They only get split further cos some silly bastard with a pen draws new borders while eating his bacon sandwich and picking out the horses on a Saturday afternoon. Redcar is in the historic North Riding of Yorkshire. All the Ridings still exist in law and can.be used on legal documents.

@BiscuitTin__ 3 года назад

why did you call it Derby XD its pronounced Darby. thought this was common knowledge

@eduardochavacano 3 года назад

he is probably gay and trying very hard not to sound like Elton John.

@peterallman8474 3 года назад

Indeed, just as common as knowing it's Bark-shire, not Burk-shire. Unbelievable.

@tub19 3 года назад

Well I'm from Darbyshire, been living down South for past 6 years, they thought i was from Yorkshire lol

@laser8389 3 года назад

I always thought it was pronounced "BARK-sherr".

@laser8389 3 года назад

And "DAR-bee-sherr".

@andyt8216 3 года назад

@@laser8389 They are. He should have known better.

@michaelgreen1515 3 года назад

Shire has it's localised pronunciations but otherwise is correctly produced as per the horse Shi-er

@greamespens1460 3 года назад

@@andyt8216 It could be that it was spelt Bærkshire and the diphthong was dropped for an "e" but kept the "æ" sound.

@AlisonBryen 3 года назад

It is.

@AndrewRobinson-ee7um 3 года назад

Superbly informative video. Thank you !

@patbrennan6572 3 года назад

Very interesting, thank you for the post sir.

@melanyebaggins 3 года назад

This is so cool. My grandfather was born in Norfolk (Norwich), but I live in Canada. I'd love to see Scotland and Ireland explained too, as I have great grandparents from both countries.

@vovacat1797 3 года назад

I had a severe case of thumbnail misread: I read "England Continues to Expand". My ferst reaction was "Oh, guess hail the empire then"

@eug69explondon7 3 года назад

I did really like this video, easy to understand and funny in some bits. The purpose to show the counties was achieved... Thanks!

@andyt8216 3 года назад

Every Brit since time began has been correcting Americans on how to pronounce "BArkshire" and "DArbyshire" and then this video comes along. Thanks for your Yorkshire explanation re the 4 modern counties and 3 traditional Ridings. However, York comes from the Viking Jórvik. It seems your google search explanation may have indeed have shown that its earlierRoman name of Eboracum meant Yew Tree place.

@pedanticradiator1491 3 года назад

Eboracum became Eorfwik which the Vikings turned into Jorvik

@iammaxhailme 3 года назад

From age 6-22, I lived on a place called Surrey Lane. (in New York in the USA)

@dcarbs2979 3 года назад

On Long Island? (Read a book set there once, with many similar names). I went to Suffolk County when I went to NY, yes named after the English county.

@iammaxhailme 3 года назад

@@dcarbs2979 nope, westchester

@pollyanne234 3 года назад

Leafy surrey

@ianbeddowes5362 3 года назад

The first counties were established before England became one country. The Kingdom of Wessex was first to divide into counties followed by the Kingdom of Mercia. England became one country in 927 under King Athelstan.

@copferthat 3 года назад

What a wonderful and informative vid

@lillyd6149 3 года назад

Great content 🔥🔥

@Laudon1228 3 года назад

Related: the word “sheriff” is and eliding of the name of the old Anglo-Saxon office of “shire reeve” a reeve being something like a chief magistrate.

@ulrikschackmeyer848 3 года назад

'Reeve' is in fact a abreviated form of the common Anglo-Saxon/Old Germanic/Norse 'greve/graff' meaning 'the count of'. So the sherif is, or was, The 'Count of the Shire'. A bit confusing when you also have the Count of his County, but there you go.

@Laudon1228 3 года назад

@@ulrikschackmeyer848 Neat! Thanks!

@Laudon1228 3 года назад

@@ulrikschackmeyer848 PS, doesn’t German also have the eorl cognate “jarl”?

@irenejohnston6802 3 года назад

@@Laudon1228 Prince, Duke, Count, Baron, all introđuced by conquest 1066. Anglo Saxon had King, Earl, Thane. Less complex hierarchy.

@mcallisterwill 3 года назад

Should maybe have mentioned the origin of the term 'cester' as it appears in a few county names. EDIT: OK you do cover it when you get to Leicester, but say it is the first time you've encountered it when you actually already did Gloucester and Worcester

@sualtam9509 3 года назад

He hasn't mentioned the origin at all. It comes from Latin castrum = fort.

@Crazytechnition 3 года назад

Chester, Manchester, Gloucester, Worcester, Leicester, Colchester, Bicester, Cirencester, Lancaster, Winchester, Chichester, Doncaster, Dorchester, Rochester, Towcester, Ancaster, Tadcaster, Alcester, Godmanchester, Brancaster, Ilchester, Portchester, Grantchester, Lanchester, Silchester, Alchester, Binchester, Frocester, Irchester, Rocester, Ribchester, Ebchester and Kenchester.

@mcallisterwill 3 года назад

@@Crazytechnition the Brythonic prefix 'Caer' or 'Car' is from the same root.

@shez666 3 года назад

@@mcallisterwill also equivalent to borough/burgh which came from burg in the Germanic languages, Edinburgh translates to Caeredin in welsh

@mcallisterwill 3 года назад

@@shez666 I don't think that's because 'burgh' is cognate for 'caer' though, as you say, burgh/Borough come from germanic languages. Welsh often puts 'caer' at the beginning of place names, for example Cambridge is Caer Grwnt but that doesn't mean that caer is Welsh for bridge.

@calum5975 3 года назад

Addition to the Kent part - Kent ultimately comes from the word 'corner', as it's quite literally the south-eastern corner of the landmass of britain. Cognates of the word are found in welsh today, meaning the edge of a circle, in the word "cant" (which is awfully similar to the city of Kent, Canterbury!)

@ulrikschackmeyer848 3 года назад

The version I heard was the it came with the Jutes from Jutland who made a Kingdom there, 'on the edge'. 'Kant' still means 'edge' in Danish today. And I suppose you could say that 'two edges make up a corner'.

@calum5975 3 года назад

@@ulrikschackmeyer848 that might be a coincidence, both are Indo-European languages so Kant might be also present in Danish from this ancestry. And yes, Kent is Jutish, not Anglo-Saxon, that's correct! Interestingly, this is even in law today, with the Duchy of Kent having gavelkind succession while every other Duchy has primogeniture, something that stems from Kent's Jutish origins. The main reason why I believe it's Celtic however and not Jutish is due to the fact that the Romans called the tribes of this land something like the Cantabrii, from the earlier Celtic name for the land. The Jutes came a few hundred years later. It's an interesting similarity however!

@faithhowe6170 3 года назад

Very interesting, thank you.

@JamesHaydonWriter 3 года назад

In actual fact, when recognised in full, there are three more 'shires' that you didn't reference - Devonshire, Rutlandshire and Somersetshire, so that's even more! Also thought it's worth mentioning that 'Hampshire' is a contraction of Southamptonshire (or, 'County of Southampton')

@pedanticradiator1491 Год назад

There's also Dorsetshire

@Urspo 3 года назад

I learned more about England in this video than in my life time

@PaddyMac 3 года назад

Glad to hear it! Just don’t pay attention to some of his pronunciations. They’re way off

@stevefuller2933 3 года назад

Some of the “facts” don’t stand up to much scrutiny either - perhaps you didn’t learn as much as you thought!

@catmom1322 3 года назад

Thanks so much!

@danielwillits2173 3 года назад

Cambridge correction!... Apparently the city was originally named Grantabridge as the river is actually called the Granta. For some reason the pronunciation of the place name changed to Cambridge over time, and so eventually they renamed a small section of the river to the Cam so it would match. That’s the story anyway. It’s only called the Cam for a relatively short stretch. One of the few examples of a river being named after the place rather than the other way round 👍🏻✌🏻

@stephenreardon2698 3 года назад

The river name is definitely a back formation, though I understood the Cam in Cambridge had come from the name of a person or group of people who had settled there so it was the Bridge of (the) Cam. Over time outsiders assumed the river was called the Cam

@michaelgreen1515 3 года назад

I think the people were orginally Canta and thus mix up begins.

@dianelawson4037 3 года назад

The river Thet also took its name from Thetford which is on The Little Ouse

@markberryhill2715 3 года назад

I live close to a town called Westminster in NW South Carolina. Every time I drive through there I feel like royalty. Two things and more y'all have in common with Georgia and the Carolina's. SC has 46 counties similar to England's 48 and Georgia is most similar in land area. Also those Scottish Highlanders y'all sent over here after the Battle of Culloden in 1746 settled close to here in a place called Highlands N C. They became our moonshiners. Thanks. Also after a few years on the farm I learned some of our hogs are names of English towns and counties. York Hampshire and Berkshire. And cattle names for the Channel Isles Jersey Guernsey and Hereford. Wish I could continue but gotta go.

@quintuscrinis8032 2 года назад

Westminster ain't royal. It's the area where the British Parliament sits. Buckingham Palace is about 20 minutes walk away closer to Kensington. Also a lot of the people who left Scotland in the 1700s weren't so much sent anywhere as escaping attempts to destroy them (the clearings were brital).

@ashgreninja7521 3 года назад

What is that background music? Pretty sure CGP Grey used it on his videos on United Kingdom

@jaojao1768 3 года назад

"Thatched Villagers" by Kevin MacLeod

@ashgreninja7521 3 года назад

@@jaojao1768 thank you very much

@trevordance5181 3 года назад

A person from Lincolnshire is known as a 'Yellowbelly'. By the way the land border between the counties of Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire is the shortest such boundary between any two counties in England at only 20 yards which is about 19 metres.

@tracik1277 3 года назад

You are great, cheers!

@stefan0ni 3 года назад

Some odd pronunciations there! The “e” in Berkshire and Derbyshire is pronounced as an “a”. Thus Barkshire and Darbyshire. Also in Tyne & Wear, the last word is pronounced as weir, not as ware!

@emilysanders2575 3 года назад

I always thought that the name of Dorset (historically Dorsetshire) came from the town of Dorchester, a Roman town.

@MrDannyDetail 3 года назад

There's definitely a link there, but given that chester is quite an old word meaning town it's possible that Dorchester means 'Town of Dorset' rather than Dorset meaning 'County of Dorchester', if you see what I mean.

@michaelgreen1515 3 года назад

Think on the Dor-set, Somer-set link.

@rjfaber1991 3 года назад

@@MrDannyDetail I think you're on the money there. It's like Kent and Canterbury, where the town also takes its name from the county rather than the other way round.

@steve08717 3 года назад

dorchester is the fort by the town of the duroiges tribe maiden castle was there town

@phoenixfoster-smith8585 3 года назад

Dorchester was originally called Durnovaria, which is a latinized version of the Brythonic word.

@ramsfanyt8227 3 года назад

Derbyshire is pronounced Darby, Tyne and Wear prounced Tyne and Wier and Berkshire prounounced Barkshire.

@thomaskey6922 3 года назад

Ayyyyy I’m from derby

@ramsfanyt8227 3 года назад

@@thomaskey6922 Me too.

@sergegodin9621 3 года назад

That was interesting. Thanks

@HarJBeRw 3 года назад

8:06 University of Warwick is actually not in Warwick but in Coventry

@andyturner87 3 года назад

Leicester was not the first mention of the cester suffix. You've already mentioned worcester

@FromTheFOD 3 года назад

And Gloucester before that

@AmazinglyAwkward 3 года назад

Derbyshire man here! This was such an interesting video, thank you! ^^ Edit - as a local, just a reminder Derby is pronounced Dar-be, not Der-be. Dar as in dart, not der as in dirt

@lowencraft1404 3 года назад

Noice! You mentioned pasties, Devon as a demonstration to something, (and Devon is right next to Cornwall) and you mentioned Cornwall first! This is great as a Cornish person myself.

@Saltiren 3 года назад

As an American fan of Ck2, this video is very much needed.

@aideywatts8513 3 года назад

Don’t listen to his pronunciations whatever u do

@tigerofdoom 3 года назад

Hartford: ah yes, a crossing for harts Oxford: ah yes, a crossing for oxen ... Me waiting for bedford: *stifling giggles*

@michaelgreen1515 3 года назад

Herts and Stags are different another mistake you don't want to make!

@loddude5706 3 года назад

@@michaelgreen1515 - "FENTON!"

@ulrikschackmeyer848 3 года назад

@@michaelgreen1515 Interesting to a non-English speaker. Please elaborate. From my own background I know 'hjort' = Dear in Danish/Swedish, as well as 'hirsh' in German. Being the kind/species of Dear, not the sex like stag.

@piersjholden 3 года назад

Wight's name actually comes from its shape. Because it's shaped like a diamond the Romans called it "vectis" (pronounced wectis) The Anglo-Saxons then called it "wictis" The Vikings: "wightis" The Normans: "Wight"

@ulrikschackmeyer848 3 года назад

Thanx a bundle. Very interesting. Merry x

@SylvainBOSSON-og8fi 3 года назад

Happy to learn that, especialy the background lyric music

@robsol123 3 года назад

LOVED this video - love Great Britain like the rest of the world

@thefrantasticmissfine 3 года назад

Rutland of course know for England's Fad Four, The Rutles!

@michelemartin3642 3 года назад

Loved the Rutles

@TheHollowBodiesBand 2 года назад

The Pre-fab four! Greater than Rod!

@paulstokes6079 3 года назад

Really enjoyed that. I'm in Wales, please do a video for us.

@michaelgreen1515 3 года назад

Preferably not the just the modern big counties but using Welsh names too.

@patrickrose1221 3 года назад

Brilliant ! As an English man of numerous years , I didn't realise just how thick I am lol. Keep it up pal , good stuff : )

@aymarafan7669 3 года назад

When you said “Pot-Heads” I was like wait what?

@AlisonBryen 3 года назад

Same...he meant Potterheads but said Potheads instead. I was like WTF?!

@purpledevilr7463 3 года назад

As an Essex lad I can say that we have the best flag.

@margotishrn 3 года назад

Dam right we do!!! Southend lad here!

@paulwild3676 3 года назад

Lancashire’s is better.

@M1CAE1. 3 года назад

I'm from that one area that can't decide if it's London or Essex lol... it gets annoying. But yeah Essex defo has the best flag, and cricket team!

@dianelawson4037 3 года назад

@Deesar Thafaks Wrong again. Ceremonial Counties have nothing to do with Administrative areas nor Councils

@dianelawson4037 3 года назад

@Deesar Thafaks In many cases they don't as you have just admitted and with the growth of unitary authorities it will be more. There are for completely different purposes

@Myrtle2911 3 года назад

Oh! You covered the "ridings." I was going to suggest them for a video. Cool beans. I've always found that confusing.

@ekvedrek 2 года назад

The Mersey is named that because it is the historic border of Lancashire and Cheshire. It's the River Dee that goes along the border of Wales.

@dannyedwards142 3 года назад

I’m from Kent, the cliffs are wonderful.... we try to ignore the Dover bit 😉

@winclouduk 3 года назад

Always ignore Dover lol

@alyssakira8320 3 года назад

Ok so: "Barkshire" not Berk, "Oxfordshire" not awksford, "Darbyshire" not Derby. This was an awesome and interesting video though!

@eelsemaj99 3 года назад

wear is pronounced weer

@crazymusicchick 3 года назад

derby/darby isn't that a regional thing because where i am we'd say derby for two home teams play each other in sport me most Aussie rules but then sometimes i hear darby

@michaelgreen1515 3 года назад

@@crazymusicchick but not for the place.

@Rgsetters 3 года назад

@Phil Mitchell I would say it's just strange people in West Sussex, but I used to live there and most people pronounce everything he got wrong just fine. But they are still quite strange in West Sussex.

@ThatGeordieGAMER 3 года назад

It's pronounced Weee-ahr with r being very subtle. Tyne and Weeahr hahaha. Also with Northumberland the river humber is four counties below it so nowhere near it now. Used to be the whole of north and lowland Scotland at one point. Southerners and scotts better remember

@elijahpeart6222 3 года назад

wicked video Ross! Great to hear Sussex getting it's flowers 💐

@MaineCoonMama18 3 года назад

I'm American but I have a lot of English ancestry, so this was super interesting!

@christopherwood9009 3 года назад

how... supprising?

@alanhindmarch657 3 года назад

The river Wear, is not pronounced Where, it’s pronounced We-are. Who is the person doing the commentary, he needs to learn how to pronounce English place names correctly. Durham, comes from the word Dunholme, meaning hill island. So it’s original name translated from Hill Island as the Cathedral and Castle are on a Hill Surrounded by the river Wear by almost 80%. Not town on a hill. Northumberland is named from the ancient land of Northumbria, which was the land north of the River Humber, which extended from The River Humber all the way to the Scottish Borders. The River Humber is no where near the modern County of Northumberland as the river is around about 100 miles South of the most southerly part of Northumberland.

@CharlieFlemingOriginal 3 года назад

"Darby" and "Barkshire" and "Wee'r" suppose as he admitted early on in the video he is a southerner, he has never been to or spoken about these places, I am grateful his research didn't mention "Humberside" which from invention in 1974 till death in 1996 was hated everywhere by everyone.

@prabalbhusal4632 10 месяцев назад

Mistake spotted: Warwickshire does not actually have the university of Warwick. The university is actually located in Coventry which is the West Midlands county