hi everybody i'm sabra your british university english teacher and i have a very simple lesson
for you today but an important one i feel as we have lots of sports coming up now in the
coming year and so there's the premier league things like that so it's important to pronounce
uk cities and uk places correctly many of you are in fact saying these wrong
so let's have a look today at 10 uk places you're saying wrong
so number one is leicester leicester which is actually the place i'm in now i live in
leicestershire if you ever see shire it looks like on the end of the british counties we have lots of
shires hampshire northamptonshire buckinghamshire leicestershire basically that is not said
shire it's sher leicestershire but coming back to leicester it's just said la ster all those
other confusing letters just forget them it's just le stuff you don't say that c for example
when leicester won the premier league i know lots of the european countries were following
you follow our premier league and it was a couple of years ago that leicester won there was lots
of funny videos going around all about how it was mispronounced by many commentators from different
cities in europe saying leccaster lechester all kinds of things like that but it's in fact
leicester practice this along with me it was amazing when leicester won the premier league
number two is birmingham the city where the the famous program the peaky blinders
is set birmingham it's not birmingham birmingham anything like that it's birmingham
that's ham part at the end we have a silent h in fact it's just an um birmingham it's an uh
sound not an ah that's why it's not ham so if you were ever saying birmingham it's very
wrong it's birmingham practice this along with me i love peaky blinders it's set in birmingham
next one oh this is a hard one because the spelling is so misleading this one is
edinburgh edinburgh so it's not edinburgh as it looks like edinburgh it's actually edinburgh
edinburgh edinburgh so there is an r in there but it's not quite in the place you expect it's
edinburgh edinburgh so be careful with that one it's easy to get it wrong edinburgh practice
this along with me do you like the city of edinburgh while we're staying in scotland let's
go to another scottish city this one is glasgow glasgow i've heard this said glasgow many times
it's actually glasgow it's a nice soft oh not an owl it's not like ours in cow it's an
oh glasgow so practice this along with me have you ever been to glasgow next one number five
next one is manchester manchester and you want to make sure you get the stress right
here it's on the man manchester manchester i've heard people say manchester manchester
it's manchester next one is gloucester now this is another example of an english word where we
have a silent c just like in leicester it's gloucester it's just glo it's actually very
easy the pronunciation so practice this along with me have you heard all about the earl of gloucester
remember those ers in english are normally schwa they're usually in uh manchester gloucester number
seven the place where i grew up and went to school is bournemouth oh my love i love bournemouth
now please be careful not to say born mouth because although it looks like that it's not that
that mouth becomes a myth bournemouth bournemouth so it's just born and you forget the e it's silent
mirth bournemouth please come and visit the lovely town of bournemouth we have some of the best
beaches in europe don't you know next one we're going up north for this one this is newcastle
castle is a difficult word to pronounce in english remember it's got that silent t
castle newcastle newcastle stressed on the new newcastle what do you think of newcastle
remember that northerners say that long r as an ah in many cases like in the word castle so they'll
say newcastle which is of course absolutely right as well and both are accepted in the dictionary
so it could either be newcastle or newcastle practice this along with me the nickname of people
from newcastle is geordi's number nine yorkshire yorkshire this is an example of where that shire
just becomes a show yorkshire yorkshire the famous book weathering heights was set in the yorkshire
moors number 10 oh tricky one this is durham this is a very beautiful old city this is durham
and this has a silent h it's just durham durham no h there at all practice this along with me
did you know durham has an excellent university one of the highest rated in the country so there
you go guys if there are more that you can't pronounce please do tell me about that in the
comments below and i'll consider making another video we have lots of videos about travel in
the uk so please do let us know where you like to visit in the uk and do you pronounce it correctly
leave a comment below and tell us as well as that please tell us places in your country that
are popular with tourists but get mispronounced leave a comment below and tell us how do we say
it correctly we'll see you soon on love english and do come and visit the beautiful uk bye-bye