American Reacts to English Counties Explained

[@EvsEntps]

I never understand why Americans have trouble with shires, since they literally have a state called New Hampshire. Just say it like you do for New Hampshire.

[@Bristolresident]

@@Souledexbud stop waffling

[@vtbn53]

I was trying to think of that example, well done.

[@Otacatapetl]

Come on, you don't expect Americans to understand anything outside America, do you? When they try, their heads explode.

[@vtbn53]

@@Otacatapetl But... but... New Hampshire IS inside America.

[@Otacatapetl]

@vtbn53 I know where it is. But they don't make the connection, because the old Hants is outside America, and they don't get that. The concept of "other countries" is something they struggle with. I've even heard one expressing surprise (shock, even) that the island of Jersey was not named after New Jersey, and he wasn't joking. I kid you not.

[@nicksykes4575]

The white rose is the symbol of Yorkshire, next door Lancashire has the red rose, these were the two sides in the "War of the Roses". A reiff was the kings agent in a county or shire, so he became a shire reiff.

[@Rachel_M_]

It's no accident that Sutton Coldfield's emblem is the Tudor Rose, the 2 Houses united. ... But that's a whole weird history of royal charters, Henry viii, Warwick Castle, his hunting grounds in Sutton Park, gifting the park to the people of Sutton Coldfield in perpetuity, and the Incorporation of the town of Sutton Coldfield.

[@captainanopheles4307]

But the counties themselves didn't always support the appropriate claimant. Large parts of Lancashire were Yorkist and vice versa, as the unfortunate plotter and would be grey eminence found out when he took a fake Lancaster prince from Ireland to Lancashire exoecting a hero's welcome and found himself handed over to the Yorkist supporting local lord.

[@leestockton9367]

And Yorkshire is god's own county

[@revbenf6870]

The bit near the the beginning that you didn't get...they are wearing caps as they do in Yorkshire, and ripping off a Yorkshire accent, where, instead of saying "the" in front of something, they shorten it to "t'". So I could have said "T' beginning...". That's as best I can explain it. Come visit and find out first hand. Just one of many many many strange things about the UK!!

[@MrBulky992]

​@@captainanopheles4307Quite right: it was a dynastic struggle on a national scale, not a territorial one.

[@neuralwarp]

The bird in Lord Salisbury's beard is a reference to the Victorian limerick .. There was an Old Man with a beard, Who said, "It is just as I feared! - Two Owls and a Hen, four Larks and a Wren, Have all built their nests in my beard.

[@seancooper4058]

They rhymed beard with beard? Rubbish

[@JackMellor498]

The “t’men and t’map” opener is a dig at the way people in Yorkshire phrase their sentences. Instead of saying for instance, “I’m going to the pub/hospital/shop/club/market” they shorten the “to the” right down to a super short t sound so “I’m going t’pub/t’shop…the ladies are looking fine in t’club” haha It’s called a glottal stop I think.

[@BeingTheHunt]

The glottal stop is specifically the sound represented by the apostraphes in "t'map and t'men", where the glottis (aka vocal cords) closes to suddenly stop the sound. It's a feature of many British accents, including notibly in the now infamous southern English pronunciation of "Water bottle".

[@rmh032]

The map men committed the common error of pronouncing it incorrectly as well. You have to drop the 't'.

[@ffotograffydd]

Some people from Yorkshire do, most don’t.

[@nintynomreader]

Dig? it's literally the dialect.

[@misingnoappeared]

More than often just don’t bother with the the or the T tbh it’s more just “ am gunna shop, tha want owt?”

[@DreB1986]

6:52: You've missed the theme from 'Postman Pat (a British stop motion animated children's television series, broadcasted all over Europe) in the background there 😉

[@carolineskipper6976]

I love Map Men videos- but really love watching them with your reactions- you are so appreciative of all the jokes- even where you need to consult a joke-translator! (At the start they were saying "Tut men and tut map" which is Yorkshire dialect for "The men and the map")

[@PiousMoltar]

t'men and t'map

[@stephenlee5929]

Re the Flower on Yorkshire Flag at 2:02, is indeed a White Rose, and yes reference the War of the Roses, the opposition being Lancashire's Red Rose.

[@oswinaltava]

"Counties are ruled by counts" except the worst part is in the UK counts are called earls and their wives are countesses...it's never simple😭😭

[@Tilion462]

Tis true, our Counts were Earls! But well, it's better that they decided to call 'em Counties, I'm not sure I'd want to live in an Early.

[@59jalex]

Earldom. Which clearly morphed to County. 😂

[@kantpredict]

And now we live in a Country, so named because it's run by a bunch of... 😜

[@KernowWella]

Not to mention the Duchies of Cornwall and Lancashire ruled by Dukes, except Cornwall which is ruled by the Prince of Wales, until he enters Cornwall, then he is the Duke of Cornwall!?

[@jonadabtheunsightly]

@@59jalex It's pronounced earldom, but it's spelled county. What? It's not any weirder than "Worcestershire Sauce" being pronounced "wister".

[@jdmhexagon2584]

I'm really loving these reactions. I get to rewatch a Map Men/JF video, and your cool calm comments - and genuine curiosity - provide a lovely counterpoint.

[@ianjackson1674]

Most of that list of"Yorkshire" dialect is in fact generic northern, and a lot of it derives from the Norse invasions. The same words and expressions will befound in Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, County Durham (and whisper it softly) Lancashire.

[@spacechannelfiver]

YOU SAID LANCASHIRE!!!!

[@jonntischnabel]

And Derbyshire.

[@steddie4514]

Thars reet lad 👍

[@jgraaay18]

Careful, these isles have seen wars over less!

[@BlackxGarden]

Don't go telling me it's yan tan tether when it's clearly yain tain eddera. By 'eck. Just don't go asking me to count past 20.

[@Kyuschi]

Counties are indeed called counties because of counts. In fact you can learn the basics of noble titles pretty easy in a similar way. There are loads of regional and time period variations but broadly speaking this is how landed titles went(or are currently referred to as): A barony is a settlement, ruled by a baron Several settlements are a county, ruled by a count Several counties are a duchy, ruled by a duke Several duchies are a kingdom, ruled by a king And several kingdoms are an empire, ruled by an emperor.

[@xxxprincessxxxjay7104]

Just took a screenshot of your comment. It’s such a cool fact to know. Thank you !

[@Tim58167]

Lord Salisbury was the uncle of ,Arthur Balfour who became British Prime minister in 1886 many believed because of the influence of His Uncle, coining the saying "Bob's your uncle".

[@pedanticradiator]

Actually Balfour became PM in 1902

[@Tim58167]

@@pedanticradiator Yes my mistake.

[@kanedaku]

It looked like you caught the Yorkshire tea gag but then got distracted with terriers. It said they're famous for their tea, which comes from this _(map points to a region in Africa)_ part of Yorkshire.

[@gillfox9899]

I live in Lancashire but close to the border with Yorkshire and to those born there it is important. My husband and I were both born in County Durham but he's a Tynesider and I was born 30 miles south in Teeside, so according to him I'm a southerner

[@jojeffrie962]

😂

[@harrymoseley8496]

Yorkshireeeeee

[@Isleofskye]

You, naturally, have the right balance of, rightly,looking things up without ruining the flow and continuity of the video :) By THe Way,that introduction was the Guys mimicking and stereotyping Yorkshiremen and the way they speak which was explained on that chart soon after.

[@kevintwine2315]

Definitely one of my favourite American reactors on KZbin 👌🏼

[@paulkitching1623]

I’m a Yorkshireman living in exile in County Durham, just over the border which is marked by the river Tees. North Yorkshire is of course the best part of the best county. Amazing coast, beautiful Dales and lots of castles. I’m also fluent in the language. Enjoyed the reaction as usual JJ. Have a great day.

[@Bandanko]

I proper laughed at "in exile" :)

[@cheman579]

"Living in exile in county durham" oh the pain mate 😂

[@B-A-L]

I used to live in Darlington but managed to escape across the border to Richmond where I lived in relative comfort for a few years until I was recaptured and then sent back to the gulag. I then managed to escape again and now live in even more comfort near Richmond in London instead and am no longer quaking in fear at being captured again! There's a little joke in there for some of you in the know!

[@emmajayne4894]

Yes! I live there, in Leeds. Very friendly place and I wouldn't want to live anywhere else.

[@jasoncallow860]

Patrick Stewart, aka Captain Picard of Star Trek, comes from Yorkshire... the French part obviously.

[@grahamstubbs4962]

Picardy, presumably. 🙂

[@McKamikazeHighlander]

The fact that America has an entire state called New Hampshire yet they still pronounce the "shire" part wrong in the UK baffles me

[@damianmccoy6128]

I’m from Manchester and when Greater Manchester was created, my Mum refused to recognise it and always insisted she was from and still lived in Lancashire.

[@oliversherman2414]

I love your channel keep up the great stuff

[@linda76seabright]

I’ve lived in the same town all my life (47 years) but have lived in 3 counties. Somerset, Avon and now North Somerset.

[@DevonExplorer]

Originally from Worcestershire but lived most of my life in Devonshire (now just called Devon) and am extremely proud of both. I didn't know that Herefordshire and Worcestershire were separate again. It didn't make sense to put them together as there's a girt big range of hills between the two counties (the Malvern Hills) and no-one took notice of it anyway and continued to put their own county at the bottom of their address and on letters to fellow county dwellers. That was really interesting and a great video as always. :)

[@charles5553]

I was born in Worcestershire when they decided to split the 2 up in 1999 so my sister is born in Hereford and Worcester while my brother and I are born in work crazy 😂😂

[@filmfan4]

Definitely recommend watching their video on the Marine Chronometer.

[@Isleofskye]

Great content and reaction and everybody did warn you of how brilliant these Guys were:) Plenty more to come,especially,London Boroughs(32) and London Tube Stations(272) etc:)

[@SocialBrowsing]

Counties certainly matter for driving and directions. They also matter for politicians and local council elections. There are locally different rules for different county councils, for example, mostly to do with local services.

[@101Mant]

I have never used counties for driving and directions. You use road names, cities etc.

[@SocialBrowsing]

@@101Mant ​You are fortunate enough to live in an organized, probably urban and more sensible area then. I live on the border of 3 counties out in the country, some people say 4, but they'd be wrong. So all these types of things come up for me not daily but often enough. - Postal address is one place, live in another, I have to explain that to a delivery driver sometimes. Occasionally someone gets lost and asks me where they are, a tourist for example, there is no major city or town close by so I give them the county, then the nearest road etc.

[@MsClaudz]

It’s a joke about the Yorkshire accent! Instead of saying “the” it’s common to hear only “t’” (from Google: This is known as th-fronting or the glottal stop and is a feature of the local accent. For example, instead of saying "I'm going to the shop", a person from Yorkshire might say "I'm going t'shop" or "I'm goin' t'shop".”

[@billythedog-309]

You don't hear any t.

[@jumpjet777]

@@billythedog-309 Replaced by coffee eh?

[@neuralwarp]

Or as you go further north, I'm gan't shop.

[@helenagreenwood2305]

Or I'm off t' shop

[@grabtharshammer]

Or I shall, within a short period of time, be sallying forth on a quest to a local establishment of purveyance, ensuing the purchase of some goods. Can I get you some liquorice?

[@Yorkshire_Lass_Bernadette]

I’m proud to be Yorkshire born and bred!

[@leestockton9367]

Good on yer

[@spacechannelfiver]

Well done duck.

[@gwaptiva]

Up hill, both ways!

[@spacechannelfiver]

@@gwaptiva backwards, in the snow

[@tomvalentine4928]

For perspective, Yorkshire is similar in size to Connecticut and more than twice as big as Delaware

[@rainyfeathers9148]

My mum calls any hot drink you can name 'tea' and it does my head in😂😂😂😂

[@oakesave]

I lived in a house that was in Lancashire, the other side of the road was in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Now, both sides are in the Metropolitan Borough Council ( a long-winded term for a 'county') of Oldham Even now which side you live on can determine which secondary school your kids can be automatically eligible to attend.

[@capablancauk]

Would recommend a song by Jake Thackeray called Molly Metcalf. There is some old Yorkshire counting in it. Jake does some fun song too!

[@helenryder8999]

Yes, Jake did the old sheep counting of 'Yan, tan, tethera, pethera...'

[@atomic_lolly7541]

Counties do matter and some people take immense pride in them. My Dad is from Yorkshire also known as (God's country) I come from Norfolk also known as (Nelsons County). People take pride in where they come from. Gotta admit though I'd rather go out for a night in Yorkshire. The people are super friendly and the beer is way cheaper.

[@Varksterable]

"Counties do matter and some people take immense pride in them. My Dad is from Yorkshire.." Well, there you go then. I'm from Devon, and I'll admit a certain amount of pride and warmness for that part of the world. My (late) mum was from Sheffield, though; and there, county loyalty is a completely different thing.

[@harryjohnson9215]

I'm from the the 3 countries harts, beds and bucks we take great pride in our counties My dad is from Bedfordshire he is proud of our towns history like the factory where Churchill tanks and someone Bedford trucks where build mum, her brother and her parents are from London they talks about NW1 all the time.

[@jean-lucpicard5510]

Highest you'll expect to pay is £4.80 if its premium. One place I know it only 3 quid. You can even find places where its only 3.50. For San Miguel.

[@richardk5246]

Don't go to Bradford.

[@jean-lucpicard5510]

@richardk5246 Better than the shit area you probably live in.

[@Dazza5007]

Congratulations on 10k subs 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@michaelprobert4014]

The first joke .. an err approximation of a Yorkshire accent.

[@davebell4917]

Accents can be very local. There is a a whole (argumentative) family of Yorkshire accents, with some bits coming from Denmark (and look up the Danelaw) and others from the Dutch. My accent is from Lincolnshire and folk from the next village can talk funny.

[@weejackrussell]

There were only ever 3 ridings of Yorkshire, there was never a South Riding. However there is now South Yorkshire but it has only existed since local govt roorganisation of the 1970s.

[@jonathangoll2918]

I'm not an expert, but 'yan, tan, tethera, methera, pip' are called 'sheep-scoring' numerals. In parts of Northern England they were used to count sheep. ( I've also come across them used to count stitches in knitting. ) They may represent ancient Celtic numbers. The Welsh for 'five' is 'pump', nowadays roughly pronounced 'pim'.

[@SongsOfDragons]

I learnt it from Keys to the Kingdom by Garth Nix.

[@vaudevillian7]

Yep, they are Brythonic (Cumbric probably) numbers

[@terencejay8845]

The late Jake Thackray had a folk song based on the Yan Tan counting called 'Old Molly Metcalfe' which is here on YT.

[@SorchaSublime]

watching you click with the right pronunciation of "Yorkshire" was funny lol. British English is one hell of a language. Some languages have tonal elements, English has historical elements. ie "the pronunciation of this word is based on historical and cultural information the language in no way actually communicates and also no other language communicates it because this is theoretically one culture"

[@thegrinderman1090]

If you think the bear (called Bungle) on Rainbow was creepy in that photo, that was a cuter version they later adopted... Look up what the original Bungle looked like, it's nightmarish, haha.

[@johnritter6864]

Where I live was once part of county Durham but is not in Tyne and Wear. There is a tunnel under the river Tyne which still marks the old boundaries though

[@philippepalmer2968]

Yorkshire is one of two counties in the UK to have an international football(soccer) team affiliated with WUFA the World Unity Football Alliance,an international governing body for association football teams that are not affiliated with FIFA.So far it has 19 members around the world including California.Since 2018 Yorkshire has played nine games,won 6,drawn 2 lost one against the mighty Parishes of Jersey.

[@katiepunch42]

Yorkshire is definitely the best. And yep we are super proud of it 🤗

[@alan-]

It's too far up north, rains all the time, plus it's not half as good as Lancashire.

[@katiepunch42]

@alan- come on now we all know Lancastrians are the poor man's Yorkshire 🤪

[@liveinhope]

@@alan- God made the Pennines so that most of the rain would fall on Lancashire - You don't pee on your own doorstep!🤣🤣🤣

[@Tilion462]

@@alan- Them's fighting words!

[@grahamstubbs4962]

Bedfordshire's *definitely* the best. You need to go through here to get anywhere you actually want to be. Oh, hang on.

[@nolaj114]

As an Aussie who traced her ancestry, I find the counties helpful in knowing how the English ancestors spoke and the culture particular to their area. (Warwickshire and Cornwall)

[@avaggdu1]

Cumbria used to be ruled by a kingdom in Wales, which in Welsh is "Cwmbran" (pronounced Khum-braan, and from the root Cymry - meaning "fellow-countrymen", and Latin "Cambria"). Cwmbran still exists as a town in the county of Monmouthshire, Wales. Cumbria was the last place in what is now England to speak Bythonic Celtic (not including the extant Breton, Cornish and Welsh languages). Disclaimer: this is intended to be a bird's eye view of the origins of Cumbria, so pedants can chew my gristly ringpiece.

[@PiousMoltar]

Well Cumbria was, along with Cornwall, the last hold-out for the Celtic Britons in England. I just thought the name Cumbria and Cymru were so similar because of their language, not because they were ruled by a Welsh kingdom. Though it depends what you mean by "Welsh". Welsh essentially just means the Britons (literally it's just the Anglo Saxon word for "foreigner", which is ironic), so they WERE Welsh in that sense, even if they had never been to modern day Wales. It was part of the kingdom of Strathclyde, which was indeed a Brittonic kingdom, when most of the island was ruled by the Anglo Saxons, Vikings, Picts and Scots.

[@andyleighton6969]

@@PiousMoltar Cumbria along with Strathclyde and some other areas was the Old North or Hen Ogledd. Closely associated with, but not controlled by, Wales they were similarly Brythonic "holdouts" from Anglo Saxon hegemony. All gone by 800 apart from Strathclyde which hung on till the 11th Century.

[@pedanticradiator]

Cumbria was never ruled by Wales, the people of both regions spoke a similar language at one time

[@selkie76]

9:00 If you think Bungle looks creepy there, wait 'til you see pics or video of the original costume from the first series ^.~

[@coling3957]

when i joined the RAF in 1980, the recruits from Devon and Cornwall were billeted with the recruits from Yorkshire in the same dorm for basic training.. there was one Yorkshireman who used all the thees and thous etc because he was a yokel. the townies from Sheffield and York even mocked him for it. in jest of course... Accents seemed more pronounced back then. us from the south-west must have sounded like real rustics.. Devonshire is second biggest county btw.

[@robertwilloughby8050]

You should do you Jay Foreman's iconic "270 tube stations in (roughly) three minutes". And it's not just him reciting them - he sings it!

[@JFinnerud]

08:57 Yeah the bear is creepy allright, but what about the puppet in the orange gimp suit

[@markthomas2577]

In the 1970s the major urban conurbations were stripped out of the old counties and formed into new Metropolitan counties ...... so you now have Greater Manchester for example which comprises parts of the old Lancashire and Cheshire. Merseyside based around Liverpool also includes parts of Lancashire and Cheshire ....... and so on for the other Metropolitan counties based around the big cities

[@davedeilhsm]

Good vid! Thanks for posting.

[@LEESS1005]

The look of TOTAL CONFUSION on your face,ears ta map an ears ta map men is awesome,😂😂😂

[@amajinjams6966]

Yorkshire girl here 😊

[@diskgrinder]

I’m from Rutland, it was created as the smallest county because it was for the smallest people, who wouldn’t need as much as room as people in, say, Yorkshire, which was that size to fit their big heads

[@missharry5727]

I definitely consider myself a Yorkshirewoman, born in Leeds and growing up in a village called Queensbury halfway between Halifax and Bradford, even though I have lived in Hampshire since 1971.

[@lukespooky]

2:09 was waiting for the york-shier. never disappoints

[@garethlowbridge2979]

Something bout us yorkshire folk, we are proud of our home county.

[@spacechannelfiver]

Even if you are from Wakefield, we don't judge. Much

[@garethlowbridge2979]

@spacechannelfiver I should clarify we love yorkshire apart from Wakefield. Got out of that place the first chance I got

[@UncleNewy1]

@@spacechannelfiver that depends..........If you're from any of the 5 Towns and the surrounding villages, then Wakey can go get fcuked (although it was a great night out when I was a single lad, so I'll let it off a bit).

[@johnritter6864]

Lots of those 'Yorkshire' words are common to the entire north of England

[@jerbil9353]

T'thing that you didn't get, is a component of regional dialects, particularly common around the Lancashire/Yorkshire area in North England, where "The" is abbreviated to just a t sound, closely followed by the next word, usually a noun or adjective. Commonly found alongside other abbreviations, like "of the" could be said as "o't' ", pronounced "ut" As in: "T' price o't' bus has gone up!" (The price of the bus has gone up!)

[@perryedwards4746]

Fun fact, Yorkshire has 8 million pop, Scotland has 5 million pop.. So Scotland has less ppl than one of our shires!! Pip Pip!

[@neuralwarp]

- UK 67.9 m ＝ England 56.3 m ≡ London 9.0 m ≡ South East Engl. 9.2 m ≡ 7 other regions 38.1 m ＝ Celtic home nations 10.5 m ≡ Scotland 5.4 m ≡ Wales 3.2 m ≡ Northern Ireland 1.9 m - ROI 5.0 m

[@neuralwarp]

Scotland is less populous than all but one of the 9 English regions.

[@jillybrooke29]

Yorkshire Accents at beginning. I was born in Lambeth, South London which was Surrey when and where my mum was also born (Croydon). So she wasn't a Londoner and my dad was born in East Ham which was Essex when he was born, so he was not a Londoner till they changed the boroughs... so in honour of them, I will always say what's on their birth certficates,

[@susantracey4486]

I live in Wingerworth never heard it mentioned before

[@gilbertbpuk]

This video always throws me off right at the start because I live 15 minutes away from Wingerworth and have had friends who lived there at various points so it is odd to be told I haven't heard of it. ;)

[@MrAki1960]

I think you would like "Horrible Histories" . 👍

[@BoblopZmuda]

I can never explain the weird pride I get when you recognise things, I shouted up "my boy!" When you recognised the white rose from the war of the roses 😂

[@cheman579]

As someone from Yorkshire, I can back up that we're probably the proudest and most patriotic county and part of the UK. Idk what it is, there's something about being from Yorkshire, whether it's the way we speak which everyone across the country recognises, or our beautiful countryside, the vibes of our cities, our small towns, I really don't know what it is, but there is something magical about being from this county. Big up West Yorkshire btw!

[@peterburry2014]

The Red Wall.... say no more

[@luc1as]

So the division in yorkshire is largely administatrive. I think all of us consider ourselves Yorkshire as a whole, with shared culture and dialects (even if the dialect varies from area to area within the county) I don't describe myself as being from South Yorkshire, only Yorkshire and the history of the ridings still plays a part. They should have kept the ridings frankly. Also fun fact about the war of the roses. Most people in Yorkshire would have been Lancastrian (House of) supporters as they held more lands in our regions than the house of York did ironically enough.

[@SKEPGFX]

Yes technically you are correct. Within each country in the UK, there are counties, imagine that a state in the US is equivalent to a country in the UK, and you are bang on correct. That’s the best way I can describe it 😂😅

[@TomKisby467]

‘The Plucking Song’ from Rainbow is available on KZbin, for your amusement

[@arwelparry7529]

I was a member of the student tv service when I was at university - we managed to get hold of the BBC TV Centre videotape departments’ (BBC TV VT) Christmas tapes for 1976 and 1977. Definitely not safe for broadcast!

[@mildandbitter]

"Yorkshire born and bred, strong in the arm and weak in the head"

[@clairecalton2116]

I'm from South Yorkshire and I'm extremely proud to be from here. It's a fab place to be. And the videos probably right a lot of us are fiercely loyal about it! It gets chanted at football matches especially if we play a team from Lancashire! In fact my son drew a picture of a rose which I had tattooed but he'd coloured it red. No way was I having a red rose (Lancashire) on me so it was changed to purple and white!

[@RichDoes..]

Should you ever visit the Lake district, my fav valley is Great Langdale, keep going north and you will find a very hairy pass that drops into the next valley. In that valley is a monument called 3 shire stone, where lancashire, Cumberland and Northumbria met at their respective borders!

[@pedanticradiator]

The 3 historic counties that meet at the 3 Shire Stone are Cumberland, Lancashire and Westmorland not Northumbria or even Northumberland

[@RichDoes..]

@@pedanticradiator Thanks for that... I was very tired and appreciate the input.

[@SirBradiator]

The adult version of Rainbow is amazing. One to watch in your own time rather than on a reaction thou!

[@richardfarish3634]

Deffo! Absolutely hilarious!.mind you the kids version wasnt much cleaner either! Find childhood memories watching that show

[@samanthahadwin]

T is a northern abbreviation of the or too the North West Coast of Cumbria has the same abbreviations except Ebygum!!

[@rjb29uk]

Yeah, counties are just generally confusing in England. For example I live in Bracknell, which is the historic county of Berkshire. However there hasn't been a Berkshire County Council since it was disbanded in 1998. My local council is called Bracknell Forest, which covers the town and surrounding areas. And the rest of (historic) Berkshire is governed locally by either Reading (Kate Winslet, Ricky Gervais), Windsor (The King) & Maidenhead, Wokingham, Slough (The Office), or West Berkshire councils now.

[@christopherflux6254]

Lancashire used to include Manchester and Liverpool, but they are now Greater Manchester and Merseyside. Lancashire still exists, but is just the northern half of the old county. (Although not the far north, as that’s absorbed into Cumbria)

[@timbutler1618]

I love in East riding of Yorkshire

[@davidhookway514]

Shires ? Your Sheriff comes from the anglo saxon Shire Reeve.

[@MrDaddynomates]

I live in Devon. Southwest England. It's a very pretty rural county with lots of Roman stuff scattered around. 😊

[@kate2.0.]

The intro thing you didn't get- it's just local Yorkshire dilext to say T' in place of The. Pronounced "tuh". Hence, we are t' map men.

[@charmainepapworth9994]

I recommend you watch some "Horrible Histories"

[@qwertyTRiG]

Counties exist in Ireland for much the same reason, but no one would dare mess with them, because Irish counties are important. (Northern Ireland has local government using completely different borders to the counties, but they're smart enough to call them "local authority areas", because calling them counties would piss people off.)

[@russherbert3130]

Re: Rainbow - the Xmas Tape for the staff, my dad worked at Thames TV for over 25 years, they had a Christmas tape every year with spoof 'adult' shows of many of their Kids/Daytime TV shows most are long lost but Rainbow remains, and yes I guess it was a UK Sesame Street (also ran for years on ITV)

[@XRos28]

What they don't say is that an Earl IS a Count in other European countries, that is why an Earl wife is a Countess (there is no word such an "EARLESS" or its equivalent, just watch Downton Abbey...)

[@MichaelJohnson-vi6eh]

The noble title "jarl" is the Scandinavian equivalent of "count" (le comte in French) so when England was part of the North Sea empire with Denmark and Norway, they created many of the "earldoms". Then the Norman French came and divided the land into counties and changed the names of the counties but didn't change the title of the noble in charge of each county.

[@Ibis117]

If one were an Earless, one would be unable to wear spectacles.

[@kainelofthouse2039]

When east riding became Humberside. For its 20 years existent my grandad never wrote it on for addresses.

[@LEESS1005]

There was once a joke about rainbow. Zippy,Geoffrey Geoffrey,Bungles gone out Geoffrey. Geoffrey,Well through some more petrol on him zippy 😂😂😂😂😂 To a 7yo this joke was HILARIOUS

[@andyleighton6969]

Rutland for such a ridiculously small, and widely ridiculed, county is actually quite interesting. I was the dower for Anglo Saxon Queens and because of it's royal connections meant that it remained distinct. This had a knock on effect as four of the Five Boroughs of the Danelaw developed into county towns but Stamford, hemmed in by royal Rutland and the church backed Soke of Peterborough [which itself was associated with several counties over time, but that would be another video], lacked sufficient hinterland did not.

[@leestockton9367]

It's also very beautiful (this from a Yorkshire man)

[@pedanticradiator]

At the time of the Domesday Book Rutland was considered a detached part of Nottinghamshire

[@DominoGaming97]

It’s amazing the amount of differentiation we have in our accents considering the size of the uk.

[@quno5174]

Norfolk has luckily never really changed at all on any of these maps. Makes things much easier to remember when it’s all the same anyway.

[@pedanticradiator]

I think there was a slight boundary change near Great Yarmouth at one time

[@quno5174]

@@pedanticradiator rather have that happen than be merged or split though

[@EdDnB]

Soooooo…. What happened to the last vid of Clarkson then!?! 😬😅 are pore Jeremy 🤣 Sarcasm is definitely a thing to be taken with a pinch of salt, especially British sarcasm!!! You must be able to take being made fun of.. that’s true British comedy 🎭 as we love are American brothers really 🇺🇸🫶🇬🇧 😉

[@neilmcdonald9164]

You think that Bungle the bear looked creepy,google original Bungle...🎩

[@rainyfeathers9148]

We had(have?) a Brent County Council, now I'm weirded out at the idea of a count running around here somewhere🤦🏾‍♀

[@pedanticradiator]

Brent has never been a county

[@EvieOConnorxoxo]

It seems important to note that Jay Foreman went to the University of York, lol

[@choomah]

Jay Forman has a bunch of music and Mark is a stand-up comedian.

[@Giggirl]

That Rainbow clip is on KZbin somewhere, i’ve seen it 😂

[@alpachinko9154]

Bristol here 👋🏽 - i still put Avon as my county - it's only in like the past decade oe so that it's been actually phased out in the mainstream

[@oliversherman2414]

Am I the only one who initially misread the title as "English Countries"? Lmao 😂

[@michaelbrown3876]

I can't believe they missed out my county in the song. Tyne and Wear

[@mr19flag]

Well if it makes you feel better I live in Yorkshire so.. If you have questions ask below ☠️☠️

[@avaggdu1]

Why doesn't "On Ilkley Moor Bar T'hat" utilise the glottal stop? Is that the only example of the t' being pronounced?

[@Bandanko]

t'map and t'men - in yorkshire they miss out the word "the" and replace it with a "T'" - going up t'hill - going down t'shops - we kinda do that in nottinghamshire too