How to Pronounce UK Place Names

[NickStone]

Expert voice artist Siobhan Thompson, AKA Anglophenia, asked US citizen and fellow YouTube star Rusty Ward of Science Friction fame to pronounce a bunch of British place names.

This is funny.

[Feathers McGraw]

Oh man, that made my day!

Seriously though, our place names are just ridiculous.

[NickStone]

You mean like these?

    Acock’s Green, Worcestershire, UK
    Babes Well, Durham, UK
    Bachelors Bump, Essex, UK
    Backside Lane, Oxfordshire
    Balls Green, Kent, England
    Balls Cross, WestSussex
    Bareleg Hill, Staffordshire, UK
    Barking, Essex
    Beaver Close, Surrey
    Bedlam Bottom, Hampshire, UK
    Beef Lane, Oxfordshire
    Beer, Devon, UK
    Beggars Bush, Sussex passed her prime
    Bell End near Lickey End
    Bishops Itchington, Staffs, UK
    Bitchfield, Lincolnshire
    Boggy Bottom, Abbots Langley, Herts, UK
    Booty Lane, NorthYorkshire
    Bottoms Fold, Lancashire
    Broadbottom, Cheshire, UK
    Brown Willy, Cornwall,UK
    Bushygap, Northumberland, UK
    Catholes, Cumbria
    Catsgore, Somerset, UK
    Charles Bottom, Devon, UK
    Clap Hill, village in Kent, UK
    Clay Bottom, Bristol, UK
    Cock Alley, Calow, UK
    Cock Bridge, Hope, Derbyshire, UK
    Cock Green, nr Braintree
    Cock Lane, Tutts Clump, Berkshire, UK
    Cock Law, Northumberland, UK
    Cock and Bell Lane, Suffolk
    Cockermouth, Cumbria
    Cockernhoe, nr Luton, UK
    Cocking, Midhurst, West Sussex, UK
    Cockintake, Staffordshire, UK
    Cockpit Hill, Derbyshire, UK
    Cockplay, Northumberland, UK
    Cocks, Cornwall
    Cockshoot Close, Oxfordshire
    Cockshot, Northumberland, UK
    Cockshutt Wood, Sheffield, UK
    Cockup Lake District, Cumbria. UK
    Coldwind, Cornwall, UK
    Crackington Haven, Cornwall, UK
    Crackpot, North Yorkshire, UK
    Crapstone, Devon
    Crotch Crescent, Oxford
    Deans Bottom, Kent, UK
    Devil’s Lapful, Northumberland, UK
    Dicks Mount, Suffolk
    Drinkstone, Suffolk, UK
    Faggot, Northumberland, UK
    Fanny Barks, Durham, UK
    Fanny Avenue, Derbyshire
    Fanny Hands Lane, Lincolnshire
    Feltham Close, Hampshire
    Feltwell, Norfolk
    Fingringhoe, Essex
    Flesh Shank, Northumberland, UK
    Friars Entry, Oxfordshire
    Fruitfall Cove, Cornwall, UK
    Fudgepack upon Humber, Humberside
    Gay Street, Sussex. UK
    Gays Hill, Cornwall, UK
    Giggleswick, Staincliffe, Nth. Yorkshire, UK
    Golden Balls, Oxfordshire, UK
    Gravelly Bottom Road, nr Langley Heath, Kent, UK
    Great Cockup & Little Cockup, hills in The Lake District, UK
    Great Horwood, Bucks, UK
    Great Tosson, Northumberland
    Grope Lane, Shropshire
    Hampton Gay, Oxfordshire, UK
    Happy Bottom, Dorset
    Helstone, Cornwall, UK
    Hole Bottom, Yorkshire, UK
    Hole of Horcum, North Yorkshire
    Holly Bush, Ledbury, Herefordshire, UK
    Honey Knob Hill, Wiltshire
    Honeypot Lane, Leicestershire
    Hooker Road, Norwich
    Horncastle, Linconshire
    Horneyman, Kent, UK
    Hornyold Road, Malvern Wells, UK
    Horwood, Devon, UK
    Jeffries Passage, Surrey
    Jolly’s Bottom, Cornwall, UK
    Juggs Close, EastSussex
    Knockerdown, Derbyshire, UK
    Lacock, Wiltshire
    Letch Lane, Bourton-on-the-Water, The Cotswolds, UK
    Lickar Moor, Northumberland, UK
    Lickers Lane, Merseyside
    Lickey End, Worcestershire, UK
    Lickfold, West Sussex
    Little Horwood, Bucks, UK
    Little Bushey Lane, Hertfordshire
    Long Lover Lane, Halifax
    Lower Swell, Gloucestershire
    Menlove Avenue, Liverpool
    Minge Lane, Worcestershire
    Moisty Lane, Staffordshire
    Nether Wallop, Hampshire
    Nob End, South Lancashire, UK
    Nork Rise, Surrey
    North Piddle, Worcestershire
    Ogle Close, Merseyside
    Old Sodbury, Gloucestershire
    Old Sodom Lane, Wiltshire
    Over Peover, Cheshire, UK
    Pant, Shropshire
    Penistone, Sth Yorkshire, UK
    Piddle River, Dorset, UK
    Pork Lane, Essex
    Pratt’s Bottom, Kent
    Prickwillow, Cambridgeshire
    Pump Alley, Middlesex
    Ram Alley, Wiltshire, UK
    Ramsbottom, Lancs, UK
    Rimswell, East Riding of Yorkshire
    Sandy Balls, Hampshire
    Scratchy Bottom, Dorset, UK
    Shaggs, Dorset, UK
    Shingaycum Wendy, Buckinghamshire
    ****lingthorpe, Yorkshire, UK
    ****terton, Dorset
    ****tington,, Bedfordshire, UK
    Six Mile Bottom, Cambridge, UK
    Slackbottom, Yorkshire, UK
    Slag Lane, Merseyside
    Slip End, Beds, UK
    Slippery Lane, Staffordshire
    Snatchup, Hertfordshire
    Spanker Lane, Derbyshire.
    Spitalin the Street, Lincolnshire
    Splatt, Cornwall, UK
    Staines, Surrey
    Stow cum Quy, Cambridgeshire, UK
    Swell, Somerset
    The Blind Fiddler, Cornwall, UK
    The Bush, Buckinghamshire
    The Furry, Cornwall
    The Knob, Oxfordshire
    Thong, Kent
    Tinkerbush Lane, Oxfordshire
    Titcomb, near Inkpen, Berkshire, UK
    Titlington Mount, Northumberland
    Titty Hill, Sussex, UK
    Titty Ho, Northamptonshire
    Tosside, Lancashire
    Turkey Cock Lane, Colchester, Essex, UK
    Ugley, Essex
    Upper Bleeding, Sussex, UK
    Upper Chute, Hampshire, UK
    Upper Dicker & Lower Dicker, East Sussex, UK
    Upperthong, West Riding, Yorkshire, UK
    Wash Dyke, Norfolk, UK
    Weedon Lois, Northampton
    Weedon, in the Parish of Hardwick, Buckinghamshire, UK
    Weeford, Staffordshire, UK
    Wet Rain, Yorkshire, UK
    Wetwang, East Yorkshire
    WhamBottomLane, Lancashire
    Wideopen, Newcastle, UK
    Willey, Warwickshire
    Winkle Street, Southampton
    Wormegay, Norfolk, UK
    Wyre Piddle, Worcestershire

[Feathers McGraw]

Fudgepack upon Humber!!

Pahaha

[vsreeser]

Like Boring, oregon - been through there, it is boring

[kernelbasher]

Believe it or not
'Dick Intake'

lol.
http://tinyurl.com/dickintake
https://www.housepricesintheuk.co.uk...RMERE-LA23+3LT

[GreyGeek]

Between the North and the South in the USA:
A small stream is a "crick" down South and a "creek" up North.
It's "ya all" down South and "you all" up North
It's a "tank" down South and a pond up North.
And the list goes on. Basically, the less you move your tongue while speaking the more Southern your speech will sound.

I attended a college in Abilene, TX and my two children were born there. When I moved back to Nebraska to teach at York College, my kids were put into a speech remedial class to "correct" their southern accents. It's been 50 years and all traces of that lingo are gone and forgotten in their every day speech, but we still get a kick out of remembering it and they can slip back into it instantly when they want.

[vsreeser]

People are more and more speaking hollywood. What they hear from tv and movies. Some differences still exist. Such as 'front room' vs 'living room' and 'pop' vs 'soda'. I grew up in Oregon and say the latter 2. Wife grew up mostly in California and uses the first 2. Before we docked in Fremantle, Australia, we (sailors on a carrier) were told not to punch someone who said, "Got a fag I can blow?" cuz they just wanted to bum a cigarette

[woodsmoke]

I went to a college in the Midwest and Everybody assumed that I had come from "back east", probably Boston, etc.

Because I spoke "precisely" and "fast", and did not end sentences with a preposition when speaking.

I was blown away, really, just astounded.

I discussed it with my mother upon returning home for semester break and she opined that it was because I read all of the old "British novels" when I was a kid, obsessed on Sherlock holmes, and also obsessed on the old black and white films of Karloff, Lugosi, Laughton, etc.

And, even though the "inflection" has gone away, the rapidity of speech and not ending sentences with "of" and such remain, and the students find it interesting.

And, my classes always fill and nobody drops, I think in part because I try my very best to be very efficient in my instruction in biology, making my own "powerpoints" and in physics wherein I use the "Socratic Method" and "Dialectic", much bastardized of course, but not just "lecturing".

There was an English prof who taught at one of the local private universities who would get on a regular rant on the telly wherein he ranted that "the Midwesterners" don't talk Midwestern they talk a derivative of middle English because the people who came from Britain, Ireland, Europe etc. and "were aghast at how many people were on the coast", and just kept travelling on to settle in the Midwest. Just his rant, don't know.

woodsmoke