You were not sweating! As my (very) late Canadian gramma, from southern Alberta, strictly informed me when I was yet a small boy, "My dear, only oafs sweat. Gentlemen perspire. Ladies simply glow"!! 🙄🤦♂️🇨🇦
As an American, I objectively know the correct way to pronounce "shire" like in Yorkshire and Berkshire, but every time I go to say it I hear Paul McCartney in my head singing "four thousand holes in Blackburn Lancasheeeer" and I doubt everything
I live near Clitheroe and went to school with a lot of people from there. It a really smart little market town with an old Norman castle in the centre. Surrounded by open farm land and the River Ribble runs by it and it is near Pendle Hill, where the Pendle Witches are from.
@@sewwoollyltd4509 The 19th century called. It appears that one Sew Woolly got missing... Could Sew Woolly report in the year 1846, please... Come on! Join the human race, for goodness sake! At least for the sake of your kids. What are you?! An old order mennonite, or something?!
A short drive from me in Kent is a country park around a place called Trottiscliffe. It is pronounced and, sometimes is written as, Trosley. Place names seem to be designed to confuse invaders.
Most of these places existed before we had a standard English language and well before any standard spelling, it was the local pronunciation and a guess at the spelling when most could not read or write. Cholmondley is also a Surname and was used in a standard text that was shown to suspected German spies arrested during WW II and required to read out loud, it also contained other Surnames like St John ( Sinjon ), Beachamp ( Beecham ) and Mainwaring (Mannering) as well as some place names like you used.
Pronouncing shire like shear (as in Alan Shearer, ex England footballer) is fine. Herefordshire pronunciation.... Hair-ruh-fud-shear Wymondham in Norfolk is a good one... Wind-um
Clitheroe too Zoom out on Google Maps and there is Lots of beautiful things to see within walking distance such as Whalley Abbey,Pendle Hill and the Ribble Valley Good base town if you are hiking. Was there last winter doing some shopping www.visitclitheroe.co.uk/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendle_Hill
Hello Alanna,that was absolutely balls achingly funny,best laugh I've had in ages.But you're absolutely correct,I'm a brit and I didn't know some of those,near where I live in Lincolnshire there is a place called Ingoldmells,it's pronounced Ingamells,also we once stay at place in Norfolk called Mundesley,the correct pronunciation is Munsley.How can we expect people from other countries to say these place names ? Once again,thanks for the laugh,and don't take it too seriously,we don't
Hi, I’ve lived in the U.K. for getting on 50 years and only knew how to pronounce 2 and managed to guess 2 others 🤓. How is your attempt to get another visa going? Did your partner have to leave at the same time or is he a Brit? I have recently come across something called CANZUK, which appears to be a proposed union between Canada, Australia, New Zealand and U.K. I think it is primarily proposed as a trading union but free travel and migration between the countries was part of it as well. Have you ever heard of it?
It is always a pleasant pastime to watch your videos. What makes this video especially heart-warming is that you (presumably inadvertently) pronounced several English county names wrong as well, not just those obscure village names; which could be considered embarrassing for someone who has spent 4 years in Britain. But you are obviously not ashamed or worried about it, and that attitude is cheerful to experience. Take care.
Alanna , just have to praise you for even trying these names ... even most brits have problems with them .. btw glad to see you sober after the last vid 😂
You are so adorable. The 5 seconds after google said “chumley” are my favourite in all your videos. Hope you get back to our shores sooner rather than later
Some of your reactions were 'GOLD' My favourite, Cholmondeley. To be fair, I pretty much went the same route as you and likewise with Happisburgh! They are both on my Photography tour of the UK! :)
Just stumbled across your videos today and subscribed. I live in Clitheroe! It's a nice little town, definitely worth a visit, the Ribble Valley is a beautiful area. Was also going to suggest on the first place names video an area that I lived as a kid - Stivichall in Coventry, pronounced "Sty-chul"!
@@AdventuresAndNaps I was about to mention Stivichall myself, it’s highly unusual in that it has two spellings, the other one is Styvechale but both should be said as ‘Sty-chul!
When I was growing up we used to let out a room to various travelling Europeans who came over and helped to teach their language at local schools. One thing I remember from talking to them a lot was that Anglo English has lots of rules and the actual language just ignores them all the time and does whatever the hell it feels like, making it insanely difficult to learn. A further observation is that most of these pronunciations make a little more sense if you are really really drunk and are alternating between slurring very badly and just talking random nonsense and hoping nobody notices. Which is just a coincidence.
Most of these forms make sense when you consider that many of these have been around since the time of Old English and have undergone massive phonetic attrition, in the same way that 'wife' plus 'man' gives us 'woman', so 'feather' plus 'stone' plus 'haugh' gives 'fanshawe'. Most of these rules then lead to obvious patterns, like is generally elided after a consonant as in Canwick, Keswick, Chiswick, the in 'cester' is a simple /s/ when unstressed as in Worcester, Leicester, Towcester 'toaster' and so on. The languagw would have had a lot more words like this if we didn't replace all the long German-style compound nouns with French and Latin terms.
Came back to one of my favourite videos of yours to wish you well and say congratulations on 99.4k subs... 100k is so close! Congratulations in advance -- you worked hard for this! :)
Yeah the ‘shire’ in many county names is deffo a ‘shur’. Rly annoying when ppl make it 100 syllables long. Same with the ‘Ham’ in Buckingham palace, it’s just a ‘hum’!
It's not that the county name is definitely pronounced as 'shur', it's all down to locational pronunciation. I live in a shire and we say all of them as 'sheer', yet head next door and they'll say 'shur'. I agree with Buckingham but in other cases you'd even lose the 'h' on 'hum' to make it 'um', so it becomes 'Burr-ming-um'. :-)
😂😂😂 another hilarious and somewhat courageous video! Leominster was one I put forward, had to chuckle at that, although I DIDN'T anticipate the trouble you had with the county name - Herefordshire. It's 'Here' pronounced like 'very' ford is like 'fud' or 'f'd' and shire is sheer. Herryf'dsheer... Herefordshire. How's about this for a video idea, two in one day; "Alanna tries more favourite ciders" followed immediately by; "alanna pronounces daft British place names - 3!" Although I still quite like the idea of you discussing your top however-many music albums. Great video Alanna! Cheers!
Nobody told Robert De Niro this when he was filming "Ronin". There is a scene where Sean Bean's character is claiming to have trained with the SAS at Hereford, and De Niro pronounces it "heerford".
@@BumbleTheBard:...well, then, Di niro's wrong, cos it certainly isn't. Hereford is my home town, where I was born, raised and where I still live and work. Di Niro pronouncing it that way, is just another example of the film industry ballsing it up.
Suggestions: Just in Liverpool there are: "Aigburth", "Claughton", "Fazakerley", "Gateacre", "Huyton", "Kirkby", "Maghull", "Saughall Massie" While "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch", in Wales, is the longest place name in UK, we also have the shortest "Ae", Dumfries and Galloway Additionally, we have the place that is plus.codes/9C8RJ3C4+29 "Dull" plus.codes/9C3XRX6C+J7 "Ware" plus.codes/9F32Q5HV+MC "Matching Tye" plus.codes/9C4R9XJ6+P3 "New Invention" plus.codes/9C3Q2QV6+6P "Westward Ho!" ["!" is part of the name] plus.codes/9C5WX7V4+C5 "Blubberhouses" plus.codes/9C6X2C9C+PF "Wetwang" plus.codes/9C4XV34V+X2 "Hose" plus.codes/9C4XRFW8+5F "Bitchfield" We could go on...!
I honestly don't know why you put yourself through such agonising pain by trying to pronounce these weird places ! As a woman whose lived in England all my life I've never heard of most of them , for the sake of laughs and giggles , I really enjoyed watching you squirm 😄 when you visit Cornwall check out foul mouth 👌fabulous video , stay safe ♥️
Hi Alana love watching your vids, your humour always makes me laugh. Hope you're enjoying being back home. Your garden looks awesome for sitting in and drinking cider!
Happisburgh has two contractions happening to it, the "borough" has become written as burgh, and the happis has been contracted in the spoken version to "hays".
@The Phantom:... turns out, it's not exclusively either.. it's both. As a kid, I was misinformed on this subject and grew up thinking it was Irish only. Not so, definitely both Scots and Irish.
@The Phantom:... congratulations on a semi-successful Google search, but they both amount to a similar thing. A gathering, singing, dancing and local, traditional nosh. I was always aware of the two spellings, but they both mean and have always meant, a similar thing; "a stopping by." Except in most cases these days, the longer spelling seems to refer to the occasion, the shorter, specifically to the dancing within the occasion. Your pedantry let's you down badly... or maybe it doesn't... ! So calm down, have an (insert name of something typically served at "a stopping by" here) and chill out...
DO NOT go to Keighley. It is tradition there for the fist-born son to marry his sister. The government has tried to intervene but unfortunately to no avail. In North Yorkshire however, the genes are a little more mixed. (We don't talk about South Yorkshire due to the 'Incidents' that occurred). Nottinghamshire a place called 'Southwell' pronounced? Here goes, Suth'll , right? Any locals agree. No gene problems in Notts as far as we know.
A funny one, though easy to pronounce, is a small village just to the south of Newmarket by the name of Six Mile Bottom! I'm just happy that I don't have to put that in my address 🤭😂🇬🇧
Bottom occurs in a lot of village place names as for obvious reason of being at the bottom of an hill, as does piddle, mainly in Dorset, local dialect for a stream I believe.
I live a few miles from Keighley - Google was correct - I was one of the nice people to suggest Keighley 😁 - Maybe you should have joined this video with the Cider one 😂 😍 - Hope you are well. You didn't look to sweaty, but we don't care if you were. You're the best 😘
Google translate got all of those right. It also, surprisingly got Barnoldswick right. But three that it gets wrong are Slaithwaite, Grindale and Barugh Green. All in Yorkshire. Probably comes from old Viking names.
The hyphenated surname Cholmondly-Featherstonehaugh is pronounced Chumly-Fanshaw, obviously....the pronunciation of Shire is entirely reliant on the local dialect of the speaker....the UK is such fun...😁
Try Sowerby. Google translate gets it wrong. It is not pronounced that way by the locals. See also Heckmondwike, Luddenden, Todmorden and Slaithwaite. See also Haworth. Pronounced Sore-bee (not Sour-bee like Google says), Heck-mund-wike, Lud-dun-dun, Tod-mu-dun and Sla-wait. This is from a native of West Yorkshire and how they're pronounced by locals. Southerners will get it wrong.
Lol 😂 Featherstonhaugh....my friend British pronunciations vary depending on which county your from. Before England was England the counties were actuall different kingdoms 'Countries' until all kingdoms were united under one crown. We have Norman, French, Dutch, German, Roman, Danish, Viking, Scandinavian as well as native British language's Gaelic, Welsh and Cornish along with Caribbean influences such as potatoe, hurricane, tobacco, canoe and so forth! So i know it's confusing how a word is spelt to how it's actually pronounced. The English language is a mixture of all i just mentioned. A lot of English who are not educated in linguistics think English is pure English with no other influences 👌
Great video as usual Alana. Always brighten up my tuesday/wednesday when I see them. In my area of the world, Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, shire is definately pronounced shur. Edinburgh is a good one to try. Ive heard a few people butcher that!
Sorry, but I'm an Ancient Brit and I knew it...perhaps it's a generational thing...It's surnames as well as place-names...One of the classics is Beachamps - Beecham...and with some of these (particularly when they're used as surnames) there are also subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) spelling/pronunciation variations too...occasionally a place-name is pronounced differently to an identical surname eg Althorp but as a surname "awltrop"...It's not meant to be comprehensible...it just is... Can I humbly recommend as a starter "Mother Tongue" one of a couple of dozen wonderful books written by a great American writer, Bill Bryson...his stuff is truly entertaining as well as educational...It was from him that I learned that Okeford Fitzpaine was actually referred to by many locals as Fippeny Ockford !
Cornwall was annexd by the kingdom of Wessex 👌 theoretically Cornwall is still an independent country as no treaty was singed with the kingdom of Wessex or England when the king died way back in the 8th century. The Cornish language is related to the Welsh language ☺
I don't think treaties were very common in the 8th century; England didn't exist in the 8th century- the territory consisted of a collection of kingdoms such as Wessex, Northumbria and Mercia. Cornish nationalism and exceptionalism are both pathetic. An independent Cornwall would be an economic basket case.
@@geoffpoole483 you missed the kingdom of Brittania! using the word pathetic for the words you used for Cornwall is an insult to the Cornish people!!!....I guess if you checked your genealogy you might be a decendent from Cornwall......
@@geoffpoole483 I'd really like to see Cornwall get complete independence, as in having to rely solely on themselves without being able to cross the border freely, and see how long they last.
"Cornwall was annexed by the Kingdom of Wessex" - so what: So were Sussex, Essex & Kent, and later East Anglia, Mercia and Northumbria eventually, but this doesn't imply that they too should be independent of England or of Britain. Welsh, Cornish and Cumbric are all Brythonic languages, so are all related. English, as we now know it, has evolved from various languages, but began with the influence of the Saxons, (mostly old German) and the Vikings (old Norse) later corrupted with Norman (mostly French,) but before the arrival of the Romans, just about everyone in Great Britain spoke one version of a Brythonic language. None of this supports the Cornish claim to be an independent nation any more than for any other part of England (You don't get any claims for Cumberland and Westmorland to be independant of the UK!) ...and before anyone claims that Cornish, like Welsh is a language still in use where Cumbric is a 'dead language' - try having a conversation with a Cumbrian shepherd and you'll realise that it isn't totally dead yet!
Sedbergh, (a small Cumbrian town at the edge of the Yorkshire Dales National Park,) is pronounced "Sed-buh" though many of the older locals pronounce it as "Sebba".
Cholmonderley ("Chumley") is an English place name that appears in a lot of family names, though if a member of the "Cholmonderley" family married someone from the Scottish "Dalziel" clan, and adopted a double barrelled name of "Cholmonderley-Dalziel" it would be pronounced: "Chumley Dee-el"
@@antix995 Yep definitely Lincoln-sheer and Cambridge-sheer anyway. But I can recall hearing Hereford-shur more often than not. Maybe the 3 syllables means that people just can't be bothered to pronounce sheer, so shorten it to 'shur'
The only reason I knew Clitheroe, there's was an old British Radio comedy; The Clitheroe Kid.... Wymondham Norfolk if you still want to play this game...
I never realised how hard it is to say Clitheroe or Keighley but I guess that's just cause I've grown up with them as I used to travel to Keighley just to go on the Heritage Railway and then I live in Clitheroe (and yes it's lovely) but I died laughing at your attempts but even some of them I didn't know
As someone who lives in between Clitheroe and Keighley, it was nice to have the area of east Lancashire/West Yorkshire represented. To be fair, a lot of weird names round here; Giggleswick, Oswaldtwistle, Barnoldswick.. Who knows who named them and what they were on 😂
I've just been watching today's beer tasting video ... which was hilarious by the way. This video popped up next so thought I'd let it play ... and it's just as fabulous as the today's beer video. Then I realised that surely the best video would be some kind of combination of the two ... some kind of alcohol drinking video combined with the attempted pronounciation of 'interestingly-spelled' place names, lol :-)
Hi! I'm loving these place name pronunciation video's, you are very good natured in your approach! I think I have a great one for you to try Alanna - Trottiscliffe - and it's a Kent village!!
Great video Alanna! You keep me sane during this madness.... If you do another one of these, how about Trotticliffe in Kent? But you might know it anyway! Stay strong... 💜
Hi Alanna, it is freezing here in Melbourne Australia. Love all the hard UK place names. Here is a New Zealand location you can practice with: "Whakaangiangi". Good luck with that one. LOL. Here is an "easy" Welsh location name: "Llanfairpwll-gwyngyllgogerychwyrndrob-wllllantysiliogogogoch". Sort of just roles off the tongue doesn't it!!! We have a place in Adelaide SA called Keswick, pronounced as Kessick. Thanks for sharing anther awesome video. all the best. Robert.
Miss A! You made a momentous move from your basement bunker to your parents back garden. Your part of Ontario is moving to Stage 3 this week. Time to showcase the beautiful area near your parents residence. Your Brit viewers would enjoy the sites.
Leuchars is correct. Used to go to the air show there back in the day. Big RAF base which had a great air show, parents took me a few times, queue to get in and out was mad as is only small country roads to get there
Slaithwaite, a lovely little village that is just outside Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. A valiant attempt Lana, had me in stiches - looking forward to part deux
Ms Naps, your reaction to 'Cholmondeley' was priceless! I laughed until I stopped! 🤣🤣🤣
Doesn't everyone ?
You were not sweating! As my (very) late Canadian gramma, from southern Alberta, strictly informed me when I was yet a small boy, "My dear, only oafs sweat. Gentlemen perspire. Ladies simply glow"!! 🙄🤦♂️🇨🇦
I’ve heard that said in England too, not sure where it originates.
The way you're pronouncing Yorkshire is spot on. Use that same "shire" sound for all the others and you won't go far wrong.
As an American, I objectively know the correct way to pronounce "shire" like in Yorkshire and Berkshire, but every time I go to say it I hear Paul McCartney in my head singing "four thousand holes in Blackburn Lancasheeeer" and I doubt everything
@@its_cleanSorry that was John Lennon sang that line. 😁
Spelling Bees in the UK leave all the children in tears 😭
That was hilarious! Your channel is keeping me sane lol! great video, i really enjoyed it.
Awesome! Thank you!
I live near Clitheroe and went to school with a lot of people from there. It a really smart little market town with an old Norman castle in the centre. Surrounded by open farm land and the River Ribble runs by it and it is near Pendle Hill, where the Pendle Witches are from.
It is spelt "Raymond Luxury Yacht", but pronounced "Throatwarbler Mangrove".
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Monty Python!
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F’tang F’tang Olé Biscuit Barrel!
@@smd1uk You should have included all the rest:
Tarquin...
Alanna, we in the UK love you (actually we love most Canadians but you especially) hope you’re back with us soon.
Alanna: "I've picked 11 of them".
Everyone else: She's definitely going to lose track and skip number 5, then count number 6 twice.
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@@sewwoollyltd4509 I bet you are fun at parties...
@@sewwoollyltd4509 The 19th century called. It appears that one Sew Woolly got missing... Could Sew Woolly report in the year 1846, please...
Come on! Join the human race, for goodness sake! At least for the sake of your kids. What are you?! An old order mennonite, or something?!
Awww man!! Best video you’ve ever made 😂😂😂. Thank you soooo much 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Glad you liked it!!
My juvenile school boy humour made me ever so slightly chuckle at entry 2.
My schoolboy humour peaked when you said Entry . 😂
It's just North of Scunthorpe, I've heard
This is my local town in Cumbria Cockermouth in Lake District can you say that without laughing 😂
A short drive from me in Kent is a country park around a place called Trottiscliffe. It is pronounced and, sometimes is written as, Trosley. Place names seem to be designed to confuse invaders.
Most of these places existed before we had a standard English language and well before any standard spelling, it was the local pronunciation and a guess at the spelling when most could not read or write. Cholmondley is also a Surname and was used in a standard text that was shown to suspected German spies arrested during WW II and required to read out loud, it also contained other Surnames like St John ( Sinjon ), Beachamp ( Beecham ) and Mainwaring (Mannering) as well as some place names like you used.
That makes a lot of sense, thanks!
(I’m from California)
Pronouncing shire like shear (as in Alan Shearer, ex England footballer) is fine.
Herefordshire pronunciation.... Hair-ruh-fud-shear
Wymondham in Norfolk is a good one... Wind-um
Put Fowey on your places to visit when you're back Alanna. It is a beautiful little coastal town.
Good idea!!
It is indeed.
Clitheroe too Zoom out on Google Maps and there is Lots of beautiful things to see within walking distance such as Whalley Abbey,Pendle Hill and the Ribble Valley Good base town if you are hiking. Was there last winter doing some shopping www.visitclitheroe.co.uk/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendle_Hill
Adventures and Naps go to Looe while you are there. It’s a beautiful place and just up the road from Fowey
@@AdventuresAndNaps And don't forget Looe whilst you're in that area.
Hello Alanna,that was absolutely balls achingly funny,best laugh I've had in ages.But you're absolutely correct,I'm a brit and I didn't know some of those,near where I live in Lincolnshire there is a place called Ingoldmells,it's pronounced Ingamells,also we once stay at place in Norfolk called Mundesley,the correct pronunciation is Munsley.How can we expect people from other countries to say these place names ?
Once again,thanks for the laugh,and don't take it too seriously,we don't
Hi, I’ve lived in the U.K. for getting on 50 years and only knew how to pronounce 2 and managed to guess 2 others 🤓. How is your attempt to get another visa going? Did your partner have to leave at the same time or is he a Brit? I have recently come across something called CANZUK, which appears to be a proposed union between Canada, Australia, New Zealand and U.K. I think it is primarily proposed as a trading union but free travel and migration between the countries was part of it as well. Have you ever heard of it?
It is always a pleasant pastime to watch your videos. What makes this video especially heart-warming is that you (presumably inadvertently) pronounced several English county names wrong as well, not just those obscure village names; which could be considered embarrassing for someone who has spent 4 years in Britain. But you are obviously not ashamed or worried about it, and that attitude is cheerful to experience. Take care.
Alanna , just have to praise you for even trying these names ... even most brits have problems with them .. btw glad to see you sober after the last vid 😂
You are so adorable. The 5 seconds after google said “chumley” are my favourite in all your videos.
Hope you get back to our shores sooner rather than later
Your reaction to Cholmondeley: "I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed." :-)
Keep up the great work! You’re videos help a lot of people focus on the funny and positive things in life. Your work makes a difference! Thank you.
I appreciate that, thank you!!
Google Translate: " Chumlee"
Alanna: throws phone
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Yeah, someone nearly swore when that came out of the phone!
Not far from me is a town called Brewood which I always thought was pronounced brE wood it’s actually brewed
Shame Penistone wasn't there, it would have been great next to Clitheroe 🙂
Maybe Pishill in there too.
Clitheroe.? Is that Clit Hero.?
Best not mention the two villages called "Twatt" on Orkney and Shetland
Andrew dixon:... ask most girls and they'll tell you that most blokes haven't got a clue where Clitheroe is via Penistone...!!!
Urgh that sounds creepy. Surely you mean women?
Always delightful and one of the highlights of my week. So funny. Stay well.
Thanks, you too!
Some of your reactions were 'GOLD' My favourite, Cholmondeley. To be fair, I pretty much went the same route as you and likewise with Happisburgh! They are both on my Photography tour of the UK! :)
Just got home from work, absolutely shattered and this video has just lifted my spirits and given me a good chuckle! Cheers Alana xx
Glad to hear it!
It actually sounds like Google doesn’t even know how to pronounce them either . Plus I love the way to pronounce Yorkshire 😂
Just stumbled across your videos today and subscribed. I live in Clitheroe! It's a nice little town, definitely worth a visit, the Ribble Valley is a beautiful area. Was also going to suggest on the first place names video an area that I lived as a kid - Stivichall in Coventry, pronounced "Sty-chul"!
Awesome! Thank you!
@@AdventuresAndNaps I was about to mention Stivichall myself, it’s highly unusual in that it has two spellings, the other one is Styvechale but both should be said as ‘Sty-chul!
I am now officially an Adventures and Naps "Numpt"... I'm from Keighley.
There is a small village near where I live called Fingringhoe. It's just outside of Colchester in Essex.
Twinned with Clitheroe I hope.
When I was growing up we used to let out a room to various travelling Europeans who came over and helped to teach their language at local schools. One thing I remember from talking to them a lot was that Anglo English has lots of rules and the actual language just ignores them all the time and does whatever the hell it feels like, making it insanely difficult to learn. A further observation is that most of these pronunciations make a little more sense if you are really really drunk and are alternating between slurring very badly and just talking random nonsense and hoping nobody notices.
Which is just a coincidence.
Most of these forms make sense when you consider that many of these have been around since the time of Old English and have undergone massive phonetic attrition, in the same way that 'wife' plus 'man' gives us 'woman', so 'feather' plus 'stone' plus 'haugh' gives 'fanshawe'. Most of these rules then lead to obvious patterns, like is generally elided after a consonant as in Canwick, Keswick, Chiswick, the in 'cester' is a simple /s/ when unstressed as in Worcester, Leicester, Towcester 'toaster' and so on. The languagw would have had a lot more words like this if we didn't replace all the long German-style compound nouns with French and Latin terms.
She is so cute. I love her goofy personality.
She is
There's a joke about Goofy:
Micky Mouse in court...
I won't tell you the rest but it's really funny. Maybe you can find it online somewhere 😉
Fine pair of lung's on her 😍
As the millennials would say, she’s totes adorbs!! 😭
Came back to one of my favourite videos of yours to wish you well and say congratulations on 99.4k subs... 100k is so close! Congratulations in advance -- you worked hard for this! :)
Yeah the ‘shire’ in many county names is deffo a ‘shur’. Rly annoying when ppl make it 100 syllables long. Same with the ‘Ham’ in Buckingham palace, it’s just a ‘hum’!
It's not that the county name is definitely pronounced as 'shur', it's all down to locational pronunciation. I live in a shire and we say all of them as 'sheer', yet head next door and they'll say 'shur'.
I agree with Buckingham but in other cases you'd even lose the 'h' on 'hum' to make it 'um', so it becomes 'Burr-ming-um'. :-)
Buck-King-ham-sheieireere
Saying 'sheer' is an invention of the BBC, and people seem to do it to try and sound 'proper.' Those people are wrong.
Nah it's shuh, not shur
You cannot help but fall in love with Fowey, It has to be top of your list of places to visit when you return.
Tuesday afternoons are such fun.
Thank you for joining!!
😂😂😂 another hilarious and somewhat courageous video! Leominster was one I put forward, had to chuckle at that, although I DIDN'T anticipate the trouble you had with the county name - Herefordshire. It's 'Here' pronounced like 'very' ford is like 'fud' or 'f'd' and shire is sheer.
Herryf'dsheer... Herefordshire.
How's about this for a video idea, two in one day; "Alanna tries more favourite ciders" followed immediately by; "alanna pronounces daft British place names - 3!" Although I still quite like the idea of you discussing your top however-many music albums. Great video Alanna! Cheers!
Nobody told Robert De Niro this when he was filming "Ronin". There is a scene where Sean Bean's character is claiming to have trained with the SAS at Hereford, and De Niro pronounces it "heerford".
@@BumbleTheBard:...well, then, Di niro's wrong, cos it certainly isn't. Hereford is my home town, where I was born, raised and where I still live and work. Di Niro pronouncing it that way, is just another example of the film industry ballsing it up.
Don’t worry I’m a Brit and I would have said Featherstonehaugh pretty much like you did!
At least I'm not alone!
@@AdventuresAndNaps try this one Caldmore. It’s in Walsall.
I seriously needed cheering up and this suggested video was perfect timing for me! Thank you 😊
Happy to help!
LMAO I pissed myself watching this as I was doing the dishes....still laughing btw
Suggestions:
Just in Liverpool there are:
"Aigburth", "Claughton", "Fazakerley", "Gateacre", "Huyton", "Kirkby", "Maghull", "Saughall Massie"
While "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch", in Wales, is the longest place name in UK, we also have the shortest "Ae", Dumfries and Galloway
Additionally, we have the place that is
plus.codes/9C8RJ3C4+29 "Dull"
plus.codes/9C3XRX6C+J7 "Ware"
plus.codes/9F32Q5HV+MC "Matching Tye"
plus.codes/9C4R9XJ6+P3 "New Invention"
plus.codes/9C3Q2QV6+6P "Westward Ho!" ["!" is part of the name]
plus.codes/9C5WX7V4+C5 "Blubberhouses"
plus.codes/9C6X2C9C+PF "Wetwang"
plus.codes/9C4XV34V+X2 "Hose"
plus.codes/9C4XRFW8+5F "Bitchfield"
We could go on...!
Can anyone from Liverpool speak English?
There's also the Oa on Islay for the shortest place name.
I honestly don't know why you put yourself through such agonising pain by trying to pronounce these weird places ! As a woman whose lived in England all my life I've never heard of most of them , for the sake of laughs and giggles , I really enjoyed watching you squirm 😄 when you visit Cornwall check out foul mouth 👌fabulous video , stay safe ♥️
Seeing you all chipper and well is a joy. Stunning backdrop and production A+
Yay! We're back in the garden.😎👍
Welcome back!
Hi Alana love watching your vids, your humour always makes me laugh. Hope you're enjoying being back home. Your garden looks awesome for sitting in and drinking cider!
Thank you so much!
I'd love to hear you speak in different British accents for your next video. 😄
That was a riot,very funny indeed-thankyou for 15 minutes of fun.Plese return as soon as you can
Featherstonehaugh! ... That was brill, never heard of half of them, even though you wussed out on Welsh😉 Have you read them to your folks?
Yes would love to know what they said.
A good one is De' arth it's spelt Death.
Happisburgh has two contractions happening to it, the "borough" has become written as burgh, and the happis has been contracted in the spoken version to "hays".
I’m English and I did not better than you lol. Come back to England we all think you are great 👍
Thanks! 😃
Likewise. I think I failed most of those. There is no way I would have guessed Fetherstonsaugh.
Same here
@riz riz Girls don't wear burkas in the west, shut up.
This is so funny! You have made my day so much! More please.....more, more. Haha!
More to come!
6:19 Scottish people know that Kayley should be spelt Ceilidh...
Erm... pretty sure that's more Irish than Scottish...
wow is that how thats pronounced lol for years ive wondered thankyou
#The celts
@The Phantom:... turns out, it's not exclusively either.. it's both. As a kid, I was misinformed on this subject and grew up thinking it was Irish only. Not so, definitely both Scots and Irish.
@The Phantom:... congratulations on a semi-successful Google search, but they both amount to a similar thing. A gathering, singing, dancing and local, traditional nosh. I was always aware of the two spellings, but they both mean and have always meant, a similar thing; "a stopping by." Except in most cases these days, the longer spelling seems to refer to the occasion, the shorter, specifically to the dancing within the occasion. Your pedantry let's you down badly... or maybe it doesn't... ! So calm down, have an (insert name of something typically served at "a stopping by" here) and chill out...
DO NOT go to Keighley. It is tradition there for the fist-born son to marry his sister. The government has tried to intervene but unfortunately to no avail. In North Yorkshire however, the genes are a little more mixed. (We don't talk about South Yorkshire due to the 'Incidents' that occurred).
Nottinghamshire a place called 'Southwell' pronounced? Here goes, Suth'll , right? Any locals agree. No gene problems in Notts as far as we know.
A funny one, though easy to pronounce, is a small village just to the south of Newmarket by the name of Six Mile Bottom! I'm just happy that I don't have to put that in my address 🤭😂🇬🇧
Bottom occurs in a lot of village place names as for obvious reason of being at the bottom of an hill, as does piddle, mainly in Dorset, local dialect for a stream I believe.
@@tonys1636 There's a Pratt's Bottom in Kent, about 2-3 miles from a place called Badger's Mount.
Alana, Happy to see you healthy and back on it! Roll with the punches.
Oh Lord, my ex-girlfriend left me 2 years ago to study at Fanshawe College. Having Vietnam flashbacks now.
2:29 You were a real hero to try this one! 😀
Great content as always, thank you for the laughs 👍
Thanks! 😁
I live a few miles from Keighley - Google was correct - I was one of the nice people to suggest Keighley 😁 - Maybe you should have joined this video with the Cider one 😂 😍 - Hope you are well. You didn't look to sweaty, but we don't care if you were. You're the best 😘
I'm down in Bristol. I always mistakenly pronounced it Keeley , so now I know ! 😉👍
My husband was born in Keighley and that's the only reason I can pronounce it! 😎
As did I. I also live only a few miles from there too. Google is certainly telling the truth with Keighley pronunciation.
Oh and Alanna is always fun to watch
Too much emphasis on the leeeyyy for me. Should just be Keithli’ (li as in lip). But I’m from Leeds, which might be a bit too far away to be right!
Google translate got all of those right. It also, surprisingly got Barnoldswick right. But three that it gets wrong are Slaithwaite, Grindale and Barugh Green. All in Yorkshire. Probably comes from old Viking names.
I can confirm that Slaithwaite comes from a Viking name, meaning "timberwood clearing" if I'm not mistaken?
The hyphenated surname Cholmondly-Featherstonehaugh is pronounced Chumly-Fanshaw, obviously....the pronunciation of Shire is entirely reliant on the local dialect of the speaker....the UK is such fun...😁
English is such an easy language to pick up they keep saying 😂
I always thought that the surname was made up for comedy sketches like the ones Harry Enfield did years ago! 😅
Wilma Knickersfit Hello Grayson.
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Personally I can't stand 'shur' it grates on me. I grew up hearing the local BBC always say Lincolnshur...ugh
Try Sowerby. Google translate gets it wrong. It is not pronounced that way by the locals. See also Heckmondwike, Luddenden, Todmorden and Slaithwaite. See also Haworth.
Pronounced Sore-bee (not Sour-bee like Google says), Heck-mund-wike, Lud-dun-dun, Tod-mu-dun and Sla-wait.
This is from a native of West Yorkshire and how they're pronounced by locals. Southerners will get it wrong.
Clitheroe.......like guitar hero but for grown ups. 😜
I knew cos The Clitheroe Kid used to be on the wireless back in the 50s and early 60s
@@WolfGratz Wireless ! My parents called it that 😉
There used to be a comtemporary dance company called the Cholmondeley and the Featherstonhaughs... pronounceed the Chumley Fanshaws :)
Yes, the Cholmondleys were an all-woman dance troupe, and the Featherstonehaughs all-male. Or vice versa.
Lol 😂 Featherstonhaugh....my friend British pronunciations vary depending on which county your from. Before England was England the counties were actuall different kingdoms 'Countries' until all kingdoms were united under one crown. We have Norman, French, Dutch, German, Roman, Danish, Viking, Scandinavian as well as native British language's Gaelic, Welsh and Cornish along with Caribbean influences such as potatoe, hurricane, tobacco, canoe and so forth! So i know it's confusing how a word is spelt to how it's actually pronounced. The English language is a mixture of all i just mentioned. A lot of English who are not educated in linguistics think English is pure English with no other influences 👌
Very Interesting @Notts Boy24
@@peterleswell6621 ☺👌
I love when you do these ones. Had me in stiches. How on earth could 20 people not like this???
Slaithwaite is a hotly debated one around here.
I can attest to that haha
slowit
Doesn't the same apply to Linthwaite.
Braithwaite too
@@psycloneranger2279 aww you killed it!
Great video as always Alanna. 🙂
Yay! Thank you!
ALANNA, very good thing you chose to live in a place with a sensible name: "KENT"- just "KENT."
She only moved there because she couldn't pronounce any of the other counties.
Great video as usual Alana. Always brighten up my tuesday/wednesday when I see them. In my area of the world, Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, shire is definately pronounced shur.
Edinburgh is a good one to try. Ive heard a few people butcher that!
Honestly, Featherstonhaugh disgusted me, and thats coming from a Brit.
I wouldn't have got this stupid one either !
Surely Google got it wrong ??! 😂
Loved the your all gd lyers and take a deep breath moments.
Sorry, but I'm an Ancient Brit and I knew it...perhaps it's a generational thing...It's surnames as well as place-names...One of the classics is Beachamps - Beecham...and with some of these (particularly when they're used as surnames) there are also subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) spelling/pronunciation variations too...occasionally a place-name is pronounced differently to an identical surname eg Althorp but as a surname "awltrop"...It's not meant to be comprehensible...it just is...
Can I humbly recommend as a starter "Mother Tongue" one of a couple of dozen wonderful books written by a great American writer, Bill Bryson...his stuff is truly entertaining as well as educational...It was from him that I learned that Okeford Fitzpaine was actually referred to by many locals as Fippeny Ockford !
@@cogidubnus1953 Bill Bryson . Legend 👌
Brilliant video!! You're so funny! I also was as clueless as you on most of the names and I'm from the UK lol Thank you for making me smile.
You're so welcome!
@@AdventuresAndNaps Thank you, You're just so lovely. I hope you can come back soon, we miss you!! ❤
Cornwall was annexd by the kingdom of Wessex 👌 theoretically Cornwall is still an independent country as no treaty was singed with the kingdom of Wessex or England when the king died way back in the 8th century. The Cornish language is related to the Welsh language ☺
I don't think treaties were very common in the 8th century; England didn't exist in the 8th century- the territory consisted of a collection of kingdoms such as Wessex, Northumbria and Mercia. Cornish nationalism and exceptionalism are both pathetic. An independent Cornwall would be an economic basket case.
@@geoffpoole483 you missed the kingdom of Brittania! using the word pathetic for the words you used for Cornwall is an insult to the Cornish people!!!....I guess if you checked your genealogy you might be a decendent from Cornwall......
@@geoffpoole483 I'd really like to see Cornwall get complete independence, as in having to rely solely on themselves without being able to cross the border freely, and see how long they last.
"Cornwall was annexed by the Kingdom of Wessex" - so what: So were Sussex, Essex & Kent, and later East Anglia, Mercia and Northumbria eventually, but this doesn't imply that they too should be independent of England or of Britain.
Welsh, Cornish and Cumbric are all Brythonic languages, so are all related. English, as we now know it, has evolved from various languages, but began with the influence of the Saxons, (mostly old German) and the Vikings (old Norse) later corrupted with Norman (mostly French,) but before the arrival of the Romans, just about everyone in Great Britain spoke one version of a Brythonic language.
None of this supports the Cornish claim to be an independent nation any more than for any other part of England (You don't get any claims for Cumberland and Westmorland to be independant of the UK!)
...and before anyone claims that Cornish, like Welsh is a language still in use where Cumbric is a 'dead language' - try having a conversation with a Cumbrian shepherd and you'll realise that it isn't totally dead yet!
Nonsence, it's just another County.
Sedbergh, (a small Cumbrian town at the edge of the Yorkshire Dales National Park,) is pronounced "Sed-buh" though many of the older locals pronounce it as "Sebba".
I grew up in New Jersey so I can't even pronounce "water" correctly...😊
I thought you pronounced it "burbon" 😆
Cholmonderley ("Chumley") is an English place name that appears in a lot of family names, though if a member of the "Cholmonderley" family married someone from the Scottish "Dalziel" clan, and adopted a double barrelled name of "Cholmonderley-Dalziel" it would be pronounced: "Chumley Dee-el"
I’m with you on the pronunciation of “shire”
Same here. We say it as 'sheer' not 'shur'.
@@lwaves Yup. Definitely sheer. Shur seems like it might be a regional accent.
@@antix995 Yep definitely Lincoln-sheer and Cambridge-sheer anyway. But I can recall hearing Hereford-shur more often than not. Maybe the 3 syllables means that people just can't be bothered to pronounce sheer, so shorten it to 'shur'
Uoumall wrong shire is pronounced shy-erh
York-shur
The only reason I knew Clitheroe, there's was an old British Radio comedy; The Clitheroe Kid.... Wymondham Norfolk if you still want to play this game...
Grew up in Devon near Wiveliscombe, but the place itself is in Somerset, whole area still worth a visit though.
"That doesn't say Keith and you god damn know it" hahahah this had me creasing. Its so true love your reaction!
Loved that, fair play to google translate it got the ones i knew right. :) i loved HEERFORD . i spat out my Tea. !! "Herreford".
I never realised how hard it is to say Clitheroe or Keighley but I guess that's just cause I've grown up with them as I used to travel to Keighley just to go on the Heritage Railway and then I live in Clitheroe (and yes it's lovely) but I died laughing at your attempts but even some of them I didn't know
As someone who lives in between Clitheroe and Keighley, it was nice to have the area of east Lancashire/West Yorkshire represented. To be fair, a lot of weird names round here; Giggleswick, Oswaldtwistle, Barnoldswick..
Who knows who named them and what they were on 😂
I've just been watching today's beer tasting video ... which was hilarious by the way. This video popped up next so thought I'd let it play ... and it's just as fabulous as the today's beer video. Then I realised that surely the best video would be some kind of combination of the two ... some kind of alcohol drinking video combined with the attempted pronounciation of 'interestingly-spelled' place names, lol :-)
The pronunciation videos are the new food tasting videos
Absolutely hilarious and charming as always 😅
Thank you! 😃
I’ve never understood Featherstonehaugh being Fanshaw but it is right. Always a good one for catching out Canadians! Lol. Great video as always.
Thanks for watching!
I spent my childhood summer a mile from Happisburgh. Was shocked when you bought it up.
Also, what about Towcester?
I think "Toaster" was in her previous video.
You always cheer me up. I hope you get your visa to come back to the UK soon. I got most of those names wrong too and I was born in Essex. Good luck.
Hi! I'm loving these place name pronunciation video's, you are very good natured in your approach! I think I have a great one for you to try Alanna - Trottiscliffe - and it's a Kent village!!
Thank you! 😃
Fearherstonhaugh had me flabbergasted. I had to recompose myself after that one. Hope you're having a lovely summer.
You too!
Great video Alanna! You keep me sane during this madness.... If you do another one of these, how about Trotticliffe in Kent? But you might know it anyway! Stay strong... 💜
Great suggestion!
Another great vid from the adorable Sweatlanna. I laughed and laughed. :-)
Hi Alanna, it is freezing here in Melbourne Australia. Love all the hard UK place names. Here is a New Zealand location you can practice with: "Whakaangiangi". Good luck with that one. LOL. Here is an "easy" Welsh location name: "Llanfairpwll-gwyngyllgogerychwyrndrob-wllllantysiliogogogoch". Sort of just roles off the tongue doesn't it!!! We have a place in Adelaide SA called Keswick, pronounced as Kessick. Thanks for sharing anther awesome video. all the best. Robert.
Awesome video again, keep up the good content
Thank you!!
Miss A! You made a momentous move from your basement bunker to your parents back garden. Your part of Ontario is moving to Stage 3 this week. Time to showcase the beautiful area near your parents residence. Your Brit viewers would enjoy the sites.
Leuchars is correct. Used to go to the air show there back in the day. Big RAF base which had a great air show, parents took me a few times, queue to get in and out was mad as is only small country roads to get there
The lack of Slaithwaite is bothersome. Although Google can't translate that one either. 🤣
Slaithwaite, a lovely little village that is just outside Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. A valiant attempt Lana, had me in stiches - looking forward to part deux
I can do it even if I'm French!
"Part deux" lol it IS the second part of this series!