Europeans Try to Pronounce the Hardest British City Names!

I live not far from Beaulieu and the Swedish girl actually got it spot on!

Could you please skip the background music? I stopped watching after 3-4 minutes since it was too distracting. I'm pretty sure I would have loved the video otherwise...

OK, so the English girl got the first syllable of Beaulieu wrong. The Swedish girl actually got the whole thing right. The IPA spelling would be /ˈbjuːli/ She also got the second syllable of Ruislip wrong - it's pronounced the same as the word "slip". IPA is /ˈraɪslɪp/ Lastly, she got Quernmore wrong as well - it's "Kwormer". IPA spelling is /ˈkwɔːmər/

The music in this video made it really hard to hear them at times, especially when the british lady was giving the correct pronunciations cause she already speaks very quietly.

the background music the background music !!!! damn

4:14 what she also forgot to mention is that names were also influenced by the french, roman and even nordic cultures.

It would help if the Brit knew that Aberystwyth was in Wales and that the Welsh language is different from English.

It's a disaster when the (supposedly) English woman doesn't know how Beaulieu in Hampshire is pronounced locally. It's "bew-ley".

2:44 With Max, "Gloucester" becomes "GLUE SISTER" 😂😂

The different ways of pronouncing the cities is the influence of the Scandanavian during Danelaw, Celtic, Anglo Saxon and French

There are reasons for the skipping of syllables, mostly everyday use and history. Some of these names come from Old English and had different spelling.

Hey hey! It’s me Ania (Aylie) it was so fun to film the video with you! ❤️

Even the English girl gets Quernmore wrong. When I hear the people around there say it, it sounds like "Kormah".

Frome is the town in English with the most often mispronounced name. Unlike a lot of other places which have their roots in Norse, Saxon, or French, Frome is Brythonic. It describes the speed of the River Frome (brisk). F1 champion Jenson Button is from Frome, so that might make it easier to remember Frome is pronounced like zoom.

British english can be very hard to learn for anyone who is not British because even today it's place name pronunciations for example are affected by our long history, all the different invasions and different people who came here with their own languages affected our language from the Scots and picts, the Romans, the Anglo Saxons, the Vikings, the Normans etc. the British English we speak is an amalgamation of them all. This is why even people who live in countries that supposedly speak English as their national language such as the US, come to the UK and mispronounce UK place names. This is because is in US english they do not have silent letters. Thet pronounce it as they see it. A good YouTube video on thus subject is "why uk place names so hard to pronounce" by map men.

The Swedish woman said Beaulieu exactly like how it's said in English

No matter how weird the spelling is, everything sounds lovely with a British accent

3:38 Jesus christ that sounded exactly like my doorbell and had to listen to that part three times to make sure nobody was at my door lmao

Très belle et souriante équipe 👏 Max toujours aussi élégant 🇫🇷 Pas évident la prononciation de ces villes😅 Vous pouvez changer de musique la prochaine fois 😉 mais merci à tous pour ce moment d'apprentissage 👍

She's a Northerner so I don't pronounce London quite the same as she does. I hadn't heard of some of those places so didn't have a clue how to pronounce them. Ruislip is quite near to me so I knew that one. We don't slur the. 'i' it is pronounced clearly. So it's Righslip not Righslup as she said. Now try saying this one, Llangyfelach! It's Welsh (I'm from Wales) so good luck and it isn't the hardest one by a long way. At least in Welsh we pronounce all the letters clearly. Try Machynlleth and Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgorgerechwyrndropwyllllantisiliogogogoch! I learnt the last one in school by singing it. It's on the island of Anglesey.