We have a Gloucester here in Massachusetts. It's a coastal town on the northshore on Cape Ann. We have a leicster in Massachusetts. It's not a coincidence neither, since This part of the USA was originally an English colony, hence, New England for Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.

Thanks for "Plymouth". Not only I rhymed it with "mouth", I also though the first syllable should have been read as in "plight".

@EatSleepDreamEnglish

3 ай бұрын

Ah awesome! You can nail it now : )

@angreagach

3 ай бұрын

Funny. I think most of us Americans get "Plymouth" right (as in "Plymouth Rock"). We also pronounce the e in the first syllable of "sergeant" with the "ah" sound.

I live in Durham, NC in the US, and we pronounce it the same way.

Tom, most people arrive in the UK via one of the six London airports (LHW, LGW, LCY, LTN, STN, or SEN), but my story was very different. I landed in BIRMINGHAM (BHX) from Munich (MUC) via Amsterdam (AMS) with KLM. Upon arrival, I had a great gift: an afternoon tea (it's impossible to be more British than that) in front of WARWICK Castle. My first memories of the United Kingdom are simply delightful and unforgettable!

Thanks for shouting out Wrexham! My home town 💖 I’ve lived in and out of the UK for 35+ years, and even I didn’t know Berkshire was pronounced “Bark-shur”. I actually loved all the different pronunciations, and I especially love hearing people try to say “Worcestershire”, as it’s a bloody ridiculous name 😂 So if you’re coming to the UK, don’t worry too much about getting it wrong: some of us here find it hard too.

I used to commute by train between London and Oxford and visitors would mispronounce Slough and Reading all the time. The former rhymes with ‘cow’ and the latter with ‘bedding’. I’ve been to Salisbury and non-Britons also get that one wrong; it’s pronounced ‘solzbree’.

Thank you for your sharing, it's amazing spelling on the special place in UK, especially Llan fau...What... Silliogogogoch......!

I already knew how to pronounce all of these, except the last one!😂 I've even visited a few last year - Plymouth, Warwickshire, and Birmingham.

Durham, North Carolina, is pronounced the same way.

As always, fun and a joy to watch. Happy Birthday, Teacher Tom! I hope you have a wonderful day!!

Thank's for sharing this always look forward to these lessons thank you

Knaresborough is a lovely town, but hard to pronounce. Cheers Tom, very useful video!

@EatSleepDreamEnglish

3 ай бұрын

Always a pleasure mate : )

Another fabulous video of yours, Tom. Thank you! Just for the records in Brazil the Worcestershire sauce is known as "molho inglês" (English sauce). It's pretty easy, isn't it?

@EatSleepDreamEnglish

3 ай бұрын

Ahhh much easier!

Brilliant video! Really useful❤

I think in Massachusetts they would get most of these right. I'm from Texas, but my daughter moved to MA as a young adult and still lives there today. She's lived in New England 1/2 her life, by now. My granddaughter was born in Leominster, MA...pronounced Lemstir or lemstah

I've been practicing pronouncing the longest city name in Wales for a little while. It's thanks to actor Taron Egerton, who lived there for 10 years when he was growing up, that I've gotten better at pronouncing the city's name.

Great lesson, thanks a lot! Yeah, and I actually mispronounced some of the place names. Welsh will of course be an extra challenge ...

Gratitude to you for teaching us correct English ❤❤

One that threw my mind off is Bellingham in Norththumberland. Very tricky as it doesn’t follow the pattern of Birmingham and others with the same suffix. And since we’re looking into Northern England, another interesting pronunciation of a place name is Carlisle.

In America’s New England, many of these names exist. The contraction of “bury”, “borough”, “shire”, “ham”, “mouth”, etc., are used in town names regularly. The State of Rhode Island has its own “Warwick”. Indeed, a video could be made for the proper pronunciation of place names like “Peabody”, “Billerica”, and the most difficult; “Woburn”.

As a Scot, I have to tell you that Edinburgh is not pronounced that way! It's either Edinbuhruh or Ednbra. Also Welsh does not have "consonants galore". W and Y are mostly vowel sounds in Welsh.

@enricochestri

10 сағат бұрын

What's the difference with what he said?

They seek him here They seek him there In Regent Street And LEICESTER Square Everywhere the Carnabetian army marches on Each one a dedicated follower of fashion "Dedicated Follower of Fashion" (The Kinks)

There's Calne and Frome near to where I live, I mispronounced both when I arrived

@EatSleepDreamEnglish

3 ай бұрын

Oh great examples!

The quayside's full of friends A farewell in their hands No-one knows if they'll reach the shore As PLYMOUTH slips away They'll not be back again They're sailing off towards the promised land "Sailing to America" (Saxon)

Thank you.

Great lesson! 😊 And then you have Fowey, Marazion, Tintagel and Mousehole and an endless line of others 😅

😂😂😂😂 Loved this! Thanks, Tom 🪁

@EatSleepDreamEnglish

3 ай бұрын

Awesome! Very glad you liked it

It's actually MiddlesBROUGH, not MiddlesBOROUGH, so it's spelled more closely to its usual pronunciation, although confusingly it is a borough in terms of political subdivision and is often known locally as The Boro (pronounced burra)

@EatSleepDreamEnglish

3 ай бұрын

Ah cheers mate! Well spotted! I think I wrote 'Middlesborough' because of the football fans calling it 'The Boro'

@CaptainSiCo

3 ай бұрын

Yes, colloquially it’s known as ‘Boro (pronounced like “borough”) so that’s an odd anomaly! Some people - even in the North East - say “Middles-borough”.

@CaptainSiCo

3 ай бұрын

As for Scottish place names, it’s another ball game altogether!!

My question is why does the ce make a ss sound? North shore of Boston has several of them too

The most curious is Godmanchester, which actually is Gamster.

@gammock4026

3 ай бұрын

I've visited this place (or been very nearby) many times and I never knew that! That's really interesting. I live near Manchester and I always thought that it was pronounced "Godman Chester" as opposed to "God Manchester"

Most of these place names cna be found in New England, especially Masschusett and have the same pronunciation as they do in the UK, except we often, though not always, use a rhotic "r." When you say "Americans," which ones do you mean?

Re Berkshire. There is an insult used in southern England for a foolish man. He might be referred to as a berk. This sounds quite mild, but in fact, it's a contraction of a now defunct piece of rhyming slang, "Berkshire hunt." You can figure out for yourself what that stood for. The fact that this word is pronounced as spelt, not "bark", indicates the county may once have been pronounced as the spelling would suggest.

Another tricky one is Southwark. I witnessed a little kid on the tube practicing his reading with his mummy, and he was saying: “Look mum, South - waaark”. And her mother: “No sweetheart, it’s Sathak!”. “Oh, come on mummy, look, it’s sooouth waaaark!” And on and on and on

Loads of sports presenters get Norwich wrong. They pronounce it as Nor-rich... when, as you say it's "Noridge". Here's one for you... Happisburgh in Norfolk... It's pronounced hayz·buh·ruh. That's right Buh!

I could do this course but I know everything already.

@annamarielewis7078

3 ай бұрын

Me too

Derby as "Darby" always mystified me, but now that I see Berkshire's pronounced the same, it must be a regular thing.

Best ones are Loughborough and Marlborough - Americans rarely get the first syllable right

haha -- I can't even remember that in English. But it's so beautiful.

The funniest is the pronunciation of Mousehole !

@EatSleepDreamEnglish

3 ай бұрын

Hehehe yes! Mousehole is a great example of how totally mad UK pronunciation is!

@stCenturySchizoidMan-tm4kj

3 ай бұрын

@@EatSleepDreamEnglish And how it should be pronounced properly?

7:17 /ˈbɜːmɪŋəm/, but /ˈwest ˈhæm/

The last one makes me feel dizzy 😂😂😂😂😂😂

❤❤❤💕

@EatSleepDreamEnglish

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching as always : )

Is it like the American “bruh” like “bro?”

I was already familiar with the weird pronunciation of many place names in the UK. But when I see the Welsh ones I become dyslectic instantly..

@annamarielewis7078

3 ай бұрын

No vowels

I can, just about ,write it with VERY few letters wrong.

Anybody knows this.

first? maybe

Next time we'll learn how to get the knot out of our tongue 😊

Cwmbwrla...

This is a perfect reminder of how miserable my English actually is.

Geez, English is utter madness

So many shires 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

And one title that is wrong! It should, correctly, read "25 UK Place Names you are saying wrongLY. Adverb! Not adjective.

Such an inefficient language. Uses so many silent letters. For the first few: the "ce" can be completely left out because the "s" sound comes from the following s.

"Scarborough" is [skɑːbərə]?

@enricochestri

10 сағат бұрын

Why do you pronounce Greenwich like that? OK for the silent w, but why say gren instead of green?