Patreon Vlog: Weird UK Cities
Added 2019-03-09 11:01:00 +0000 UTC
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In Kent there is a village called Pratts Bottom.
Arthur Gatward
2019-04-16 06:23:19 +0000 UTCAs Simon says, there is a No Name Street in Sandwich. It has a deli called the No Name Shop, which is fantastic! They do a tartiflette that's out of this world. Just nearby there is a village called Ham. As a result, there is a sign pointing to Ham Sandwich - <a href="https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1983152" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1983152</a>
Nick Ellis
2019-03-11 16:43:55 +0000 UTCThis is an endless game to play. We have a very strange language sometimes and place names have been influenced by so many different origins, (Roman, Saxon, Danes and French, never mind the original Old English) that some are bastardisations of several of these. I thought you did pretty well on your attempts at the names though. Good one today Alanna, as usual. Thanks.
Adam Clark
2019-03-09 17:56:35 +0000 UTCI enjoyed this, it’s not something I would look up for myself but when you point weird stuff out it’s fun. Upgrading to getting patreon videos is a fairly new thing for me but it’s one of the most fun things I spend money on, you’re just more relaxed in these videos and it allows your sense of humour to show through more strongly, thank you for putting yourself out there and joining patreon, I hope you never have cause to regret the decision.
Sarah Hogg
2019-03-09 16:25:29 +0000 UTCHere's a few of the place names near where I grew up. Haultwick, pronounced 'Artic'. Tonwell, pronounced Tunnel. A village called Nasty which was always getting it's street signs stolen. Another village called Ugley which was in the news a few years back when the Womens Institute there decided to change their name from the Ugley Womens Institute to the Womens Institute of Ugley! I was back in the UK last week visiting family and my girlfriend laughed when we passed a street called Cockbush Avenue in the town I used to live in. Don't worry about pronunciation. My Swedish is terrible and my blogger girlfriend can get hundreds of likes on Facebook/Instagram/Twitter etc. posting about the stupid way I say many Swedish words. I'm kind of used to the ridicule now.
Dave Denty
2019-03-09 12:04:41 +0000 UTCI'll see your Pucklechurch (where my mum used to work, thankfully not at the sex offenders prison there!) and raise you Bay d'Espoir - now that's a funny name! Oh, and Desolation Sound...
Mark E Mark
2019-03-09 11:51:48 +0000 UTCTry pronouncing my town, loughborough. The international students here call it loo gah ba roo gah. Its luff brugh
Lee Johnson
2019-03-09 11:49:07 +0000 UTCI struggled with Alnwick when I lived up north, pronounced a-nick
Simon
2019-03-09 11:45:26 +0000 UTCYou should visit ‘no name street’ in Sandwich, just to say you have been.
Simon
2019-03-09 11:44:18 +0000 UTCA lot of English pronunciation is weird for all sorts of reasons. A lot to do with time though. Pronunciation drifts more than spelling. And often the spelling on the map wasn't written by a local anyway A couple of minor points, the food Sandwich is named after the place, or a least the local Lord North Americans generally pronounce New Hampshire Hamp Shur but don't realise they are doing it Love the fact you say Dorset with a slight Dorset accent Great video as always.
Simon
2019-03-09 11:24:18 +0000 UTC
