Can you pronounce the names of these cities

and everyone and welcome back to english

with Lucy today I have another

pronunciation video for you I’m going to

be going through all of the English

place names that are really hard to

pronounce and I’m going to be letting

you in on some secrets yes I’m going to

be giving you some rules and if you take

note and if you learn them hopefully

pronouncing English place names should

be a lot easier and to make it a little

bit more fun and to allow you guys to

laugh at yourselves

I’ve made it a quiz so you can comment

below with your score I’m basically

going to give you a little bit of time

to guess the pronunciation before I tell

you what it is let’s see how many you

get wrong oh sorry I should be more

motivational let’s see how many you get

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with the lesson and the quiz so we’re

going to be focusing on England today

but if you would like to know about

Scotland Wales and Northern Ireland just

the rest of Britain let me know in the

comments and I’ll see if I can find

someone

from those areas to help me out now I’m

going to do it area by area and I’d like

to start with southern England simply

because that’s where I’m based sort of

number one how do you pronounce this

beautiful city it’s pronounced

Gloucester Gloucester number two how do

you pronounce this Oxfordshire town if

you do want to go it has a great

designer outlet we love going there

it’s Vista Vista and I can assure you

before that designer outlet was built I

was calling it Bicester so you’re not

alone

number three how do you pronounce this

town that’s just outside of London

it’s plough Slough fun fact I once had

an iPhone stolen and it appeared in

Slough I never got it back and number

four the last one of this section how do

you pronounce this town it’s reading

reading and reading festival was the

first festival I ever went to

potentially the last now I have been to

one since yet festivals aren’t for me

turns out someone jumped on my tent not

great okay let’s move on to places in

London the first one this has a tube

stop in London and it’s where I went to

university how do you pronounce it it

should be Marylebone Marylebone but it’s

now so widely mispronounced that who

knows I’m sure I’ll have a couple of

opinions on this video about how to

pronounce Marylebone

number two a little town in the borough

of Hillingdon how is this one pronounced

it should be rice slip rice slip number

three this is an area in central London

it again has its own tube station how

would you pronounce it it should be

pronounced Hoban Hoban the next one is a

borough of London it also has a tube

station I used to live here and I

started off mispronouncing it how would

you pronounce this place it should be

Southwark Southwark the next one this

place has a football club a very famous

football team how would you pronounce it

it should be

Tottenham Tottenham now I used a glottal

stop there okay it should be pronounced

Tottenham Tottenham but everyone I hear

says Tottenham Tottenham Hotspurs next

we have this place lovely place

supposedly how would you pronounce it it

should be Chyzyk Chizik with a sound

don’t ask me why it’s the way it is next

where my brother in law to be lives how

would you pronounce this place it should

be Greenwich Greenwich okay moving on to

the Midlands number one there is a

source named after this place how would

you pronounce it

it should be Worcester Worcester just

two syllables the next one this one’s

quite similar how would you pronounce

this city it should be Lester Lester and

the same goes for Leicester Square in

London okay moving on to this one there

is a fantastic University here it’s

always really good at sport how would

you pronounce it it should be love bruh

love bruh again only two syllables but

you might hear some people saying

Loughborough but it should be Brad

and the last one how would you pronounce

this city it should be Darby Darby okay

the first one located in Yorkshire how

would you pronounce it it should just be

buck buck the next one how would you

pronounce this location it should be

pronounced Keithley Keithley and the

last one this Cumbrian town how would

you pronounce it it should be said BER

said tha okay let me know in the

comments below how many you got right

and please don’t worry if your score is

low the names are ridiculous it’s almost

like a gate keeper like if you can’t say

the places we know you’re not from here

now I’m going to share a couple of rules

with

you about suffixes of place names in

general knowing these suffixes will mean

you will automatically know how to

pronounce a wide variety of place names

okay first we have breath breath for

example love bruh lust bruh then we have

Bri Bri

for example bibury by Bri then we have

stir stir for example mr. mister then we

have come come for example Sal come Sal

come then we have um like in Tottenham

Tottenham then we have uh none this

isn’t a suffix it’s actually in the

first syllable of a word its unn as in

London and Tunbridge then we have sure

or shear

sure or shear it depends Bedford sure

Bedfordshire you can choose whichever

you like and the last one we have Merce

Merce as in Bournemouth right that’s it

for today’s lesson I hope you enjoyed it

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don’t forget to contribute any other

really difficult to pronounce place

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soon for another lesson yeah

sometimes I forget how just were like

back to the Riveter and that’s where by

my coloring pencils from oh my god it’s

what okay I might hear some people

saying

Loughborough that should be breath

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