We are looking at the top five British place names that you will never say wrong again.
The first one, it's the capital of England, the Queen lives there, Harry Potter lives
there, I live there.
How do we say it?
London, not London, London.
Now the stress is on the first syllable.
London.
Let's say it really slowly.
London.
Ok, I'm going to put that into a sentence.
'I'm from London.'
Number two, it's a beautiful city in Scotland.
Edinburgh.
Now this is British English and specifically my accent is London English so there are some
differences but this is how I would say it.
Edinburgh.
not Edinburg or Edinborough.
Edinburgh.
Ok, how many syllables does it have?
Edinburgh.
Ok three syllables.
The stress is on the first one, Edinburgh.
Number three, now we are getting difficult.
This is a tricky one.
This is one people get wrong so often.
Now it's really important because they won the English Premier League last season so
we need to know how to say it.
Ok, we say Leicester.
Not LeiSester or LeiChester, Leicester.
It's got two syllables Leicester.
Ok put them together.
Leicester.
Now if you are in London you might have seen the tube station Leicester Square, it's the
same name so it's the same pronunciation.
This is the central area, it's very popular with tourists so now you know how to say it.
Leicester Square.
Number four, we're going to the beach.
This is my favourite or one of my favourite seaside towns.
Brighton.
Not Brighton because I hear that so often Brighton no no no Brighton.
Ok the last one.
I think it's the most difficult.
It's the river that runs through London, it looks like this and it's mispronounced as
Thames but really it should be said Thames.
So the River Thames.
That 'th' is actually a /t/ not 'th' it's a /t/ so Thames the River Thames.
Alright guys, I want to know 'Have you ever been to any of these places?'
If you have been please tell me in the comments below I love to hear from you guys.
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Alright guys, thank you so much for hanging out with me.
This is Tom the English Hipster saying goodbye.