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

@windmillwilly

3 жыл бұрын

No.

@4n0ngaming

3 жыл бұрын

@@windmillwilly ok

@tylerscott1216

3 жыл бұрын

Seams kinda sus

@dabtican4953

3 жыл бұрын

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 жыл бұрын

Merseyside, Liverpool to be precise

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 ай бұрын

🤯

@ARCtheCartoonMaster

8 ай бұрын

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.

Berkshire is pronounced barkshire. Also derby is pronounced darby

@deathmisser85

3 жыл бұрын

I cringe when people say Derby as Derby not Darby.

@secktorichah

3 жыл бұрын

@Sir Knight Errant Mate I’m English

@deathmisser85

3 жыл бұрын

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

@WaterShowsProd

3 жыл бұрын

I was quite surprised when he pronounced Derby like that.

@deathmisser85

3 жыл бұрын

@@WaterShowsProd Same.

An Englishman mispronouncing Derbyshire is unacceptable

@DAviation179

3 жыл бұрын

I don't think he's English

@charliebeecham5063

3 жыл бұрын

@@DAviation179 he said he is

@DAviation179

3 жыл бұрын

@@charliebeecham5063 Doesn't mean he is.

@007mrdarcy

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a robot voice to me...

@TheseUseless

3 жыл бұрын

The fuck does Derbyshire even do, anymore?

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

@christopherwood9009

3 жыл бұрын

live in warwiskshire and didnt even know that

@AbbasAdejonwo

3 жыл бұрын

@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 жыл бұрын

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

@haalstaag

3 жыл бұрын

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 жыл бұрын

Cause that makes sense.

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 жыл бұрын

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

@t.a.k.palfrey3882

3 жыл бұрын

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 жыл бұрын

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

@oliverwortley3822

3 жыл бұрын

EXACTLY ! What excuse does he have, he lives here

@merrymermaid

3 жыл бұрын

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

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.

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 жыл бұрын

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 жыл бұрын

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!

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

@jonathanwhite460

3 жыл бұрын

i think i missed norfuck and suffuck

@rogantoad2571

3 жыл бұрын

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

@DanceswithDustBunnies

2 жыл бұрын

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

@MD-tv5fp

Жыл бұрын

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

@Chebab-Chebab

Жыл бұрын

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

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

@IndiBrony

3 жыл бұрын

Tyne and Weeee-a!

@DC-iw9ug

3 жыл бұрын

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

@perovwellyz560

3 жыл бұрын

@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 жыл бұрын

@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 жыл бұрын

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

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 жыл бұрын

And Berkshire, and Tyne and Wear

This fella says he’s English?

@TheseUseless

3 жыл бұрын

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.

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.

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

@peterallman8474

3 жыл бұрын

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 жыл бұрын

What counties class as the north?

@christianfreedom-seeker934

2 жыл бұрын

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

Ай бұрын

@@peterallman8474 I thought that too!

@DrivermanO

Ай бұрын

@@bigman2890 Anything north of London! Ha ha

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

@sheaballard3022

3 жыл бұрын

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

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

@JoeHetherington

3 жыл бұрын

I thought the same lol embarrassing

@philipm06

3 жыл бұрын

He can't even pronounce 'Dickhead'.

@CharlieFlemingOriginal

3 жыл бұрын

Pissed me off how awful it was.

@AndrewRobinson-ee7um

3 жыл бұрын

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

@CharlieFlemingOriginal

3 жыл бұрын

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

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 жыл бұрын

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 жыл бұрын

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

@MrOffTrail

2 жыл бұрын

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

@no15minutecities

2 жыл бұрын

British!!

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

@nickyleighton3766

3 жыл бұрын

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

@pavlovsdog5020

3 жыл бұрын

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

@villageintheshire

3 жыл бұрын

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

@seanjennings8383

3 жыл бұрын

Clown

@annamcuthbert3993

3 жыл бұрын

Love it 🤣🤣

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 жыл бұрын

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 жыл бұрын

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

@Derry_Aire

3 жыл бұрын

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

@TheseUseless

3 жыл бұрын

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

Ай бұрын

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

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

@shirleymental4189

3 жыл бұрын

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 жыл бұрын

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 жыл бұрын

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

@shirleymental4189

3 жыл бұрын

@@demonking86420 because we lost America

@TheseUseless

3 жыл бұрын

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

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

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.

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

@simonh6371

3 жыл бұрын

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

@frankb3347

3 жыл бұрын

@@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 жыл бұрын

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

@oufc90

3 жыл бұрын

Love from Oxfordshire

@dcarbs2979

3 жыл бұрын

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

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 жыл бұрын

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

@LewisSkinner

3 жыл бұрын

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

@calum5975

3 жыл бұрын

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 жыл бұрын

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 жыл бұрын

@@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?

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

@russophile9874

3 жыл бұрын

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 жыл бұрын

@@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 жыл бұрын

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 жыл бұрын

@@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 жыл бұрын

@@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.

The Wear in Tyne and Wear is pronounced like weir

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'.

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 жыл бұрын

You are so beautiful.

@peterallman8474

3 жыл бұрын

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 жыл бұрын

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

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 жыл бұрын

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

@pedanticradiator1491

3 жыл бұрын

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

@ulrikschackmeyer848

3 жыл бұрын

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

@pedanticradiator1491

3 жыл бұрын

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

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 жыл бұрын

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

@Locomattive8572

3 жыл бұрын

Northampton is a town too.

@connie1wilson

3 жыл бұрын

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

@GarethBlears

3 жыл бұрын

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 жыл бұрын

and much more wrong!

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

It's Darby not Derby btw.

@christopherwood9009

3 жыл бұрын

he said something more like

@izmirs.

3 жыл бұрын

If its darby, why is it spelt as derby

@jasongarfitt1147

3 жыл бұрын

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

@russophile9874

3 жыл бұрын

@@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 жыл бұрын

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

How did he pronounce so many County names incorrectly.

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

@verisimilitudeteller

3 жыл бұрын

Me too, and I'm American. :)

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 🤷‍♂️

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

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

@JackHadders

3 жыл бұрын

Came here looking for this comment

@200swilson

3 жыл бұрын

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 жыл бұрын

@@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.

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

@deenfurgsz6806

3 жыл бұрын

Smart Alec clever-bollocksness..!

@langdalepaul

3 жыл бұрын

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 жыл бұрын

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

@michaeljones7465

3 жыл бұрын

@@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 жыл бұрын

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

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

@mellonmarshall

3 жыл бұрын

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 жыл бұрын

@@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 жыл бұрын

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 жыл бұрын

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 жыл бұрын

@@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'.

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 жыл бұрын

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

@andyalder7910

3 жыл бұрын

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

@tdawson198

3 жыл бұрын

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

@andyalder7910

3 жыл бұрын

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

@davidwright7193

3 жыл бұрын

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

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 жыл бұрын

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 жыл бұрын

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

@EllFell0_0

3 жыл бұрын

@@ianhalsall-fox ?

@EllFell0_0

3 жыл бұрын

@@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 жыл бұрын

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

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

@masterimbecile

3 жыл бұрын

And Massachusettes lol

@aabidn275

3 жыл бұрын

😂 it’s because we named them!

@LedosKell

3 жыл бұрын

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

@pissa_tv5489

3 жыл бұрын

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

@islandgirl9479

3 жыл бұрын

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

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!!

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

@darthsawlex8257

3 жыл бұрын

Interesting, no word for Shire in Portuguese then?

@sohopedeco

3 жыл бұрын

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

@seilaessecanalnvaitervideo6414

3 жыл бұрын

ae um br

@seilaessecanalnvaitervideo6414

3 жыл бұрын

@@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 жыл бұрын

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!

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 жыл бұрын

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. 🤔

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.

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

@dcarbs2979

3 жыл бұрын

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 жыл бұрын

@@dcarbs2979 nope, westchester

@pollyanne234

3 жыл бұрын

Leafy surrey

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

Very interesting, thank you for the post sir.

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

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

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 жыл бұрын

Eboracum became Eorfwik which the Vikings turned into Jorvik

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.

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

@laser8389

3 жыл бұрын

And "DAR-bee-sherr".

@andyt8216

3 жыл бұрын

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

@michaelgreen1515

3 жыл бұрын

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

@greamespens1460

3 жыл бұрын

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

@AlisonBryen

3 жыл бұрын

It is.

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 жыл бұрын

Not to forget tyneside and teeside

@michaelgreen1515

3 жыл бұрын

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 жыл бұрын

@@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 жыл бұрын

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.

Superbly informative video. Thank you !

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

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

2 жыл бұрын

There's also Dorsetshire

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 жыл бұрын

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).

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.

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 жыл бұрын

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 жыл бұрын

@@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!

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 жыл бұрын

'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 жыл бұрын

@@ulrikschackmeyer848 Neat! Thanks!

@Laudon1228

3 жыл бұрын

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

@irenejohnston6802

3 жыл бұрын

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

Calls himself name explain but mispronounces them all

First picture used for Cornwall is Portloe! Special little village and was happily surprised to see it.

I've thoroughly enjoyed the whistle-stop tour of England. Each county has some fabulous places to discover. Littering lets us down in some places and I agree with the Council in York who've named the throwers of litter as 'Tossers' which is rather apt. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 👍

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

@PaddyMac

3 жыл бұрын

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

@stevefuller2933

3 жыл бұрын

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

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 жыл бұрын

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 жыл бұрын

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

@dianelawson4037

3 жыл бұрын

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

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.

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

@michaelgreen1515

3 жыл бұрын

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

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

@winclouduk

3 жыл бұрын

Always ignore Dover lol

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

@margotishrn

3 жыл бұрын

Dam right we do!!! Southend lad here!

@paulwild3676

3 жыл бұрын

Lancashire’s is better.

@M1CAE1.

3 жыл бұрын

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 жыл бұрын

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

@dianelawson4037

3 жыл бұрын

@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

Cheshire cheeses were once routinely made in molds that had the form of a smiling cat on them. I've read that in three different Annotated Alices and the Norton Critical Edition of the Alice books.

@peterallman8474

3 жыл бұрын

Also the figure of the "grinning" Cheshire Cat predates Lewis Carroll or Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. So living in Daresbury, Cheshire as a boy he will have heard of it.

Happy to learn that, especialy the background lyric music

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

@michelemartin3642

3 жыл бұрын

Loved the Rutles

@TheHollowBodiesBand

3 жыл бұрын

The Pre-fab four! Greater than Rod!

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

Great content 🔥🔥

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

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

@michaelgreen1515

3 жыл бұрын

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

@loddude5706

3 жыл бұрын

@@michaelgreen1515 - "FENTON!"

@ulrikschackmeyer848

3 жыл бұрын

@@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.

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

@MrDannyDetail

3 жыл бұрын

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 жыл бұрын

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

@rjfaber1991

3 жыл бұрын

@@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 жыл бұрын

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

@phoenixfoster-smith8585

3 жыл бұрын

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

12:48, Northumberland is actually quite a long way from the Humber estuary, which sits between the East Riding of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. The name is based on the ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria which did stretch from the Scottish border all the way down through Yorkshire to the Humber.

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 жыл бұрын

Thanx a bundle. Very interesting. Merry x

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 жыл бұрын

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

@Crazytechnition

3 жыл бұрын

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 жыл бұрын

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

@shez666

3 жыл бұрын

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

@mcallisterwill

3 жыл бұрын

@@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.

Interestingly Shropshire was also once inhabited by a tribe named the Cornovii, it is unknown if they were related to those in cornwall.

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.

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

@jaojao1768

3 жыл бұрын

"Thatched Villagers" by Kevin MacLeod

@ashgreninja7521

3 жыл бұрын

@@jaojao1768 thank you very much

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

@FromTheFOD

3 жыл бұрын

And Gloucester before that

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

That pub in Leicestershire is the Navigation in Barrow on Soar. They do a pretty nice stake sandwich

@QuercusRobur44

2 жыл бұрын

Stake as in wooden spike?

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

@eduardochavacano

3 жыл бұрын

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

@peterallman8474

3 жыл бұрын

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

@tub19

3 жыл бұрын

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

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

@aideywatts8513

3 жыл бұрын

Don’t listen to his pronunciations whatever u do

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

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

@thomaskey6922

3 жыл бұрын

Ayyyyy I’m from derby

@ramsfanyt8227

3 жыл бұрын

@@thomaskey6922 Me too.

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!

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

Very interesting, thank you.

What a wonderful and informative vid

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

@AlisonBryen

3 жыл бұрын

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

There is an insurance company based in Hartford, Connecticut called The Hartford and it's logo is a dear

@josephwalewski2028

3 жыл бұрын

Are you from CT too?

@michaelkirschner

3 жыл бұрын

@@josephwalewski2028 yes I am

@michaelgreen1515

3 жыл бұрын

The English version is Hertford but a Hert is very definitely not a stag!

@neilcaress9036

3 жыл бұрын

Deer!

@kevinparkes4084

3 жыл бұрын

Oh Dear!

At 3:50 you mention how Tolkien took the term Shire for the Hobbits home but it may not actually come directly from the county names He spent time teaching at an old boarding school in Lancashire called Stonyhurst during which time he drew a lot of images and made a lot of notes of inspiration that he later used in making the LotR books, just down the road from the school (Shire Road in fact) is a small collection of houses known as the Shire as well the the Shireburn (although pronounced Shur-bern) family being a very important one in the history of the area and giving their name to one of the local pubs and many parts of the school itself. Having spent time there the local scenery makes a very convincing case that the name comes directly from that rather than the counties in general

@ulrikschackmeyer848

3 жыл бұрын

VERY INTERESTING INDEED! WHY WAS THIS NOT EVEN IN THE, EXTENDED VIDEO VERSIONS? This is hoppit Lore gold!

@ulrikschackmeyer848

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry for the typo: hobbit : ancient norse 'hol-bytlan' 'home-dweller'

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