American Reacts to Why Are British Place Names So Hard To Pronounce? REACTION

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King Boomer

King Boomer

7 ай бұрын

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American King Boomer's Reaction to Why are British place names so hard to pronounce by Jay Foreman. ENJOY!
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@JohnJohnJohnJohnJohnJohnJohnJo
@JohnJohnJohnJohnJohnJohnJohnJo 7 ай бұрын
You need to do more Jay Foreman reactions his videos are incredible
@iangt1171
@iangt1171 7 ай бұрын
Jay and Mark are very funny 😂😂
@OwainF
@OwainF 7 ай бұрын
Would love to see a reaction to his brother, beardyman too!
@davidtaylor4204
@davidtaylor4204 7 ай бұрын
What! Really!? Just Googled and it's true!!! Never knew that. I'm a big fan of both.@@OwainF
@brooza664
@brooza664 7 ай бұрын
Worth watching their ads too
@CiaraOSullivan1990
@CiaraOSullivan1990 7 ай бұрын
​@@OwainF Beardyman is an absolute legend.
@martinscholes2023
@martinscholes2023 7 ай бұрын
Using words like “Bloke” is firm proof of your gradual anglicisation and is to be welcomed 🇬🇧😍
@danielgardecki1046
@danielgardecki1046 7 ай бұрын
You missed the Ankers joke with a silent W.
@joshuacauser
@joshuacauser 7 ай бұрын
As a Brit, I've learnt a lot from Jays vids
@barrymitchell6444
@barrymitchell6444 7 ай бұрын
I don't get how Kansas is rightly pronounced "kan-sus" but Arkansas is pronounced "ark-in-saw."
@lesleyhawes6895
@lesleyhawes6895 7 ай бұрын
What about Peru the country, and Peru (Peeruu)the American city?
@barrymitchell6444
@barrymitchell6444 7 ай бұрын
@@lesleyhawes6895 I wasn't even aware of that one!!!
@galaxspace1
@galaxspace1 7 ай бұрын
Kansas was named by the English. Arkansas was named by the French.
@noahbrown6970
@noahbrown6970 7 ай бұрын
@@lesleyhawes6895 Similarly - the country of "Leb-a-non" and the city of "Leb-n'nn", Indiana 😂
@AlbertaGeek
@AlbertaGeek 7 ай бұрын
I maintain that Arkansas was named by people who wanted their own Kansas, but were bad at spelling.
@davidtheloafward
@davidtheloafward 7 ай бұрын
I'm so happy you're reacting to Jay's channel! If you're interested in UK culture at all you'll love the Map Men series, unironically some of the best content anyone puts on YT :) Edit: theyve also done an episode on America iirc!
@t.a.k.palfrey3882
@t.a.k.palfrey3882 7 ай бұрын
Jay has that rare ability to make presentations which are highly informative, rib-achingly humerous, and entirely entertaining. Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and occasionally Canada, are really the only environments in which Jay's and his ilk's form of dry-wit, mildy sarcastic, deadpan presentations on serious topics truly work. Just like Diane Morgan and Al Murray, this type of academic comedy has been central to these countries' children's interest in history since the publication of 1066 and All That in 1930.
@stevesoutar3405
@stevesoutar3405 7 ай бұрын
I am British, but when I was kid we lived in a town in Australia for while, called Marybrynong - pronounced Mari- B'rnong And I was thrown out of an English class at school there because I tried to help the English teacher how to pronounce Gloustershire when he was struggling to read it out loud from a play
@NinjaVestos
@NinjaVestos 7 ай бұрын
Your teacher just got embarrassed that a kid new more than them
@randommadness1021
@randommadness1021 7 ай бұрын
Got Marybrnog on the first go. Fuck knows how? Maybe cause am Scottish...? We have some tough ones up here, try Milingavie, Kirkcaldy or Brigeton for starters. Even made them get easier from 1st to 3rd. Don't say am no good to ye's all 🙂
@xixXxxXxix
@xixXxxXxix 7 ай бұрын
2 places from near me in the North East, Durham & Chester-le-Street used to be called the Roman names Dunelm & Cestria - which are still often used in Business names
@OneTrueScotsman
@OneTrueScotsman 7 ай бұрын
We were drunk when we made them all up.
@EvieWillNotDie
@EvieWillNotDie 7 ай бұрын
Yes but they also explained the real reason lol
@vonvard9765
@vonvard9765 7 ай бұрын
Still am
@stephenmurphy2212
@stephenmurphy2212 7 ай бұрын
In Ireland we have a town in Cork called Lisdoonvarna. They were on acid when they named the town. 😝
@SpacenSpooks
@SpacenSpooks 7 ай бұрын
r/wooosh? Come on lol, it was obviously a joke@@EvieWillNotDie
@EvieWillNotDie
@EvieWillNotDie 7 ай бұрын
@@SpacenSpooks Yeh I know? What?
@venturout
@venturout 7 ай бұрын
Jay Forman’s videos are hilarious but very well researched and are very informative.
@Varksterable
@Varksterable 2 ай бұрын
Indeed. The answer to "Are these videos accurate?" is definitely Yes!! But with a caveat: Sometimes they lay on jokes so confidently, quickly and dead-pan that unless you know enough to realise they are jokes, you might simply accept them as straight facts. I absolutely love this style of comedy. Not least because I'm quietly pleased that I 'got the joke' or spotted one of their many subtle Easter-eggs. It's quite fair that they don't put out content rapidly; every single one is crafted to perfection. So if I feel I need more Map Men, I simply re-watch some of them (again). And often still manage to spot something new I'd missed the previous times.
@spacebace
@spacebace 7 ай бұрын
Gotham is where the idea of Gotham City came from in Batman. "Gotham is now a friendly village popular with families, but a few hundred years ago its residents had a reputation for "madness". One story goes that King John, also the villain in the legend of Robin Hood, was due to travel through Gotham on his way to nearby Nottingham. Any road the king travelled on would become a public highway, so the villagers are said to have feigned madness to deter the king - as it was thought to be infectious. Their absurd acts included building a fence around a bush to prevent a cuckoo escaping, and attempting to drown an eel in a pond. The trick worked, leading to the saying: "There are more fools pass through Gotham than remain in it." Villagers were also dubbed the Wise Men of Gotham. Word of the supposedly foolish acts spread, and they were collected in various books including The Merie Tales of the Mad Men of Gotam, published in 1565. The American author Washington Irving became aware of the tales and was the first person to link Gotham in England with New York in the US. He repeatedly referred to Manhattan as Gotham when writing, in 1807, in the Salmagundi papers, a satirical periodical mocking New Yorkers."
@shelleyjackson8793
@shelleyjackson8793 7 ай бұрын
Yay they mentioned where I live! Towcester is said like toaster. Even most British people not familiar with it say Tow(as in cow) Chester.
@CiaraOSullivan1990
@CiaraOSullivan1990 7 ай бұрын
If you've only just discovered Jay then you're in for a treat. He's made some incredible videos over the years, both on his own and with Mark.
@kenhobbs8565
@kenhobbs8565 7 ай бұрын
Jay foreman and especially map men are great. Fast humour but I'm sure by now you can follow easily. 😊
@tom186i
@tom186i 7 ай бұрын
Just in case anyone doesn’t know, Jay Foreman is world famous Beat-boxer’s brother Beardyman.
@DavidSmith-cx8dg
@DavidSmith-cx8dg 7 ай бұрын
Map men is invariably funny and informative , they do the ad as a little comedy sketch , sometimes half way through so there might have been a bit more . It's even more confusing when place names are spelled identically and pronounced differently . Lovely to see the family together ❤.
@liamculham8486
@liamculham8486 7 ай бұрын
I absolutely love Jay Foreman! So glad you finally discovered him 😁
@BBKing1977
@BBKing1977 7 ай бұрын
I'm shocked you're just finding Jay Foreman now. So many great videos on his channel!
@msboomerizzle303
@msboomerizzle303 7 ай бұрын
I'm definitely subscribing to his channel after watching this so thanks for putting this up KB. Thank you also for giving me a wee peep at the Princess, being a Mum myself, I immediately did the "awwww" thing. Queen, you look fab as always!
@Renzsu
@Renzsu 7 ай бұрын
Great channel, very educational as well. I like his videos on London specifically.
@helenwood8482
@helenwood8482 7 ай бұрын
I love those two and this video in particular. Their stuff is reliable. It's all accurate. There were a lot of Roman forts here, because we were never entirely conquered.
@randommadness1021
@randommadness1021 7 ай бұрын
Only cause the Romans were too busy running from us Scottish. Your most famous Wall was to keep us out. 😂😂
@helenwood8482
@helenwood8482 7 ай бұрын
Lovely to see Princess Boomer. She's adorable.
@depecher6s311
@depecher6s311 7 ай бұрын
YESSS THIS IS AMAZING! My favourite reactor reacting to one of the best UK youtubers ever! Please do more Jay Foreman videos, I beg you
@rachelbarker5816
@rachelbarker5816 3 ай бұрын
So lovely to see your new so beautiful daughter. 😍 ❤ King and Queen Boomer. Xxx I so LOVE watching you both acting to our British programmes and comedian's xxx You King Boomer and Queen Boomer cheer me up so very much!! As I the moment I am stuck upstairs in my bedroom. My health is that bad I can't get down my stairs!! XX
@chrismackett9044
@chrismackett9044 7 ай бұрын
Metz in France is pronounced - more or less - as ‘Mess’, the Batz in the Île de Batz is pronounced as ‘Ba’ and Rheims as ‘Rance’.
@bendaniel2271
@bendaniel2271 7 ай бұрын
I live near a village called Woolfardisworthy, pronounced 'Woolsery'. And Exeter, still has its Roman walls. And the City fans love to sing about them
@SabretoothBarnacle
@SabretoothBarnacle 7 ай бұрын
We do indeedily have city walls, although most are areas you really don't want to wander around anymore due to nefarious activities
@bendaniel2271
@bendaniel2271 7 ай бұрын
​@@SabretoothBarnaclethat's probably why the Romans built the walls. It's a shame if it's a new type of dodgy and not just your classic Riff-raff lane type. The only time I travel into Exeter now is in the evening for food. And what variety! Everywhere has become a restaurant. That's what I found most disappointing. I checked out your channel by the way. Good work. Reckon I may end up watching your Amiga 1200 video if I can locate mine.
@SabretoothBarnacle
@SabretoothBarnacle 7 ай бұрын
@@bendaniel2271 The city certainly has changed ever since the last financial crash. I very rarely walk in anymore and it's a bit of a shadow of its former self. It's well worth digging the 1200 out, they're worth quite a bit these days. Hope you find it and manage to get it up and running, I'm sure you'll have fun reminiscing!
@bendaniel2271
@bendaniel2271 7 ай бұрын
@@SabretoothBarnacle seeing the words "Cracked by Angels" on my screen once again will probably make me shed a tear of nostalgia
@SpacenSpooks
@SpacenSpooks 7 ай бұрын
What nefarious activity? I need to know for, err, research purposes 😅@@SabretoothBarnacle
@TheOriginal_BigMac
@TheOriginal_BigMac 7 ай бұрын
So sweet to see a glimpse into your family life. You're gonna make great parents ❤
@dawncritchlow-burke6567
@dawncritchlow-burke6567 7 ай бұрын
Glad to see everyone is doing well
@Industrialist2015ofUk
@Industrialist2015ofUk 7 ай бұрын
you get alot right, cuz ur not an idiot like some youtubers in your position😂 Jay Foremans Videos are soo good, fun and informative. English names are in the NE of USA, as well as southern parts like Virginia... then Spanish name on the west side and SouthWest, and Native names in Midwest and easternely like Toronto, which yes is in Canada but i luv it there! and AZ is awesome
@MrNikolidas
@MrNikolidas 7 ай бұрын
Jay's family is pretty musically talented, too. Jay also plays the guitar and writes comedy songs, while his brother Darren (aka Beardyman) is also a comedian/entertainer/musician and world-class beatboxer.
@gybod9166
@gybod9166 7 ай бұрын
About a year ago when I wasn't doing so good, I stumbled across your videos and ended up re-watching the whole of The Inbetweeners with you guys. Your videos cheered me up, I really looked forward to new ones dropping. Things are much better for me personally now and I still drop in to check out your videos. Congrats on your success and congrats on the birth of your first child, we are looking forward to the birth of our first too. God bless, you muppet.
@jackcarter5101
@jackcarter5101 7 ай бұрын
1:41 Leominster is 'LEMSTER', Bicester is 'BISTER', Godmanchester is 'GUMSTER' (traditionally), Loughborough is 'LUFFBURRA', and Keighley is 'KEETHLEE'. More examples - Ulgham is 'UFFAM', Happisburgh is 'HAYZBURRA', Milngavie is 'MULGUY', Barnoldswick is 'BARLICK', and Woolfardisworthy is 'WOOLZERY'. Examples local to me in North East England - Finchale is 'FINKLE', Houghall is 'HOFFLE', Prudhoe is 'PRUDDA', Cambois is 'CAMMIS', and Ireshopeburn is 'EYES-UP-BURN'.
@johnp8131
@johnp8131 7 ай бұрын
You've been watching "Eat Sleep Dream English", probably? I live only a couple of miles from Godmanchester and the "Gumpster" pronounciation is pure rubbish. It's "Godmun-chester". Apparently in the eighties somone was "having a laugh" and tried to give it a silly pronouciation like "Batter-sia" is Battersea. Someone without a sense of humour thought "Gumpster" was for real?
@jackcarter5101
@jackcarter5101 7 ай бұрын
@@johnp8131 No I haven't been watching that, and that's why I said 'traditionally'. Nowadays it just gets the phonetic pronunciation. Hopefully it does not set a trend, and people start calling Leicester LEE-SESTER.
@JoaoPedroTiago
@JoaoPedroTiago 7 ай бұрын
there videos are ALL great, and the sponsor segments are some of the best in all internet.
@alpinenewtplaysgames4509
@alpinenewtplaysgames4509 7 ай бұрын
These guys are great, I fell down their rabbit hole a few weeks ago and binged watched a fuck tonne of their vids.
@jansalm75
@jansalm75 7 ай бұрын
Missed the town near Norwich (Norrich); Wymondham, Windem. Fooled me for some time after moving up to Norrfek
@eddyd8745
@eddyd8745 7 ай бұрын
I've haven't watched for a while, nice to see Princess Boomer, congratulations to you both.
@patchworkboy87
@patchworkboy87 7 ай бұрын
I adore Jay and Mark for their comedic timing, writing and informative content. You should check out some of the music Jay Foreman made as well.
@jmmypaddy
@jmmypaddy 7 ай бұрын
Jay Foreman videos are always funny as heck, I highly recommend them being viewed more.
@AndrewJonesMcGuire
@AndrewJonesMcGuire 7 ай бұрын
Love Map Men, even their ads. My favourite sponsored bit is the desert island one 😂
@chrisofnottingham
@chrisofnottingham 7 ай бұрын
They / Jay have a whole bunch of themed channels and videos that are universally excellent
@Mr-Reece
@Mr-Reece 7 ай бұрын
More Jay Foreman please, quite funny and educational.
@scottscott232
@scottscott232 7 ай бұрын
9:22 - super super nice to see Queen Boomer and Princess Boomer make a royal appearance.
@charlottehardy822
@charlottehardy822 7 ай бұрын
Nice to see the whole family ❤
@davidedgar7893
@davidedgar7893 7 ай бұрын
Awwwwwww how did i miss the baby came, Mega Congrats 🎉
@leohickey4953
@leohickey4953 7 ай бұрын
I was born in a town in Lancashire that has a Viking name (the general hospital has a big maternity unit), and was raised in a nearby town whose name is disputed - maybe Celtic updated by Old English, or maybe Anglo-Saxon. Either way, it's mentioned in the Domesday Book (the national census taken by King William I in 1066). All this stuff is pretty interesting to me and the Map Men do a lot of good videos.
@Mezame9
@Mezame9 Ай бұрын
Goldthorpe is been the focus of several treasure hunts for centuries. Vikings named their towns and cities after what was there and they were also known for burring their wealth. Hence, if a Viking names a place "Gold-City", it's because there's gold buried somewhere in that city. And people have been trying to find this gold for centuries.
@StefanWB
@StefanWB 7 ай бұрын
I'm a big Jay Foreman fan, always glad to see people discover his content. The Al Murray bit he referenced is from the Every Country in the World routine where he's holding an inflatable beach ball globe and talking about the countries. And it's actually a very good point that the U.S. has a huge variety in the naming of settlements and municipalities due to the various linguistic influences introduced by its settlers or indigenous peoples. It's maybe taken for granted, but it's not a coincidence that a huge number of cities and places in states like Florida, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, and California have names with Spanish origins, because these were all originally settled by the Spanish, and all except Florida were part of Mexico until the secession of Texas and the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1846. And of course there's the former territory of French Louisiana, which has numerous towns of French origin - Baton Rouge, the capital of the modern state of Louisiana, literally means "red stick" in French. Corpus Christi, TX, is good old fashioned Latin ("body of Christ", named by Spanish explorers in reference to the Eucharist). My dad married an American who is from Wisconsin and her family are German-American, so of course their home town is New Berlin, WI. Multiple cities have the Greek suffix -polis, meaning city, so Indianapolis (go Colts!) literally means "city of Indiana", although this is more of an affectation than anything else. And of course there's pretty much all of Hawai'i. So because so many of these names have origins in European settlements they're rarely tricky for us Europeans to pronounce correctly. But then you get into the names derived from Native American languages, and that's where the trouble can start, because none of those languages are derived from or related to Indo-European languages - they're a completely separate family. So Americans may struggle with our booby traps, but I'm sure that lots of British people were just as likely to be embarrassed by mispronouncing "Connecticut", or assuming that Kansas and Arkansas should pretty much be pronounced the same way, or can never successfully remember how to spell Mississippi or Massachusetts the first time. So it does go both ways.
@MikeyMutronix
@MikeyMutronix 7 ай бұрын
Ay! Grimsby my home town ,Today a crap hole but past history is rich as a Viking founded settlement .
@EvieWillNotDie
@EvieWillNotDie 7 ай бұрын
Oh let's go this video is so great I thought you already watched it. My town of Loughborough even makes a feature in this video but I think should've featured more cuz no one, not even many brits I've asked, can pronounce it. It makes no sense lol it contradicts itself so hard with the same letters making completely different sounds.
@OiiRobbi3x
@OiiRobbi3x 7 ай бұрын
i knew youd love these two just so goofy its hilarious
@BomberFletch31
@BomberFletch31 7 ай бұрын
Stay for the ads. I think the ads on his channel are the best I've seen - particularly the one at the end of the video titled "How many continents are there?"
@atrus3823
@atrus3823 7 ай бұрын
An American one that I always found crazy was Kansas and Arkansas. Add an "ar" in front and the pronunciation is completely different.
@matthewlewis5669
@matthewlewis5669 7 ай бұрын
After a 13 hour work day this was pretty funny. And my home town Cirencester got a mention as well 😂
@terrytt5067
@terrytt5067 7 ай бұрын
Dear KB, QB, BB and Doggie B, very happy to see/hear you all in the same room. Trust you're all well, especially QB & BB. You look happy & content, just hope your insides match your cool, calm exterior haha! It's great to see you all. Wait until you lovely "Rug Rat" starts walking hehehehee😵! How often are her feeds? Does KB have to bottle feed your lovely baby at night, giving QB some "Shut Eye"? If Breast fed, in case you've NOT been told, you can express into bottles so KB can fed her during the night! Have I just "Dropped you right in it" KB haha! I wish you all the very best in your new life as. P A R E N T S! Oh yeah, pronunciations! America has some quirky places that are pronounced differently to the Spellings! TUCSON = Tooson ARKANSAS = R. Kansas , no "w" Plus you have a habit of adding & subtracting letters, such as:- Warder = Water Annabiodics = Antibiotics plus you over emphasise such as putting an extra letter by speech alone on the end of words or places! Places such as Moscow in Russia. "Moscow" that is pronounced "Mossco" in the English Language, the "w" is silent! Americans over emphasise the word "COW"! The reasoning is imo at school you weren't ever taught how to do such things which over the best years of your lives resulting in "Linguist Laziness", such as ... t'ords = towards! Which just proves Americans cannot Spell, Punctuate or Pronounce English words correctly and just cannot therefore speak ENGLISH 🤔 I know as I am partially educated in Minnesota in the early1960s and I spoke Just Like U Do. Until I was rescued and moved to B E R L I N, where my Dad was stationed - gotcha!👹👻💀👺 Happy Halloween in a few days y'all!👀
@pennycarter3433
@pennycarter3433 7 ай бұрын
There's a village in Devon spelled Woolfardisworthy, Woolsery to Devonians. It was spelled both ways on various signposts when I lived there.
@87leeb
@87leeb 7 ай бұрын
These guys are brilliant, funny and educational. Congratulations on the new member of the family.
@jacob_c_443
@jacob_c_443 7 ай бұрын
I highly recommend you watch more Map Men and Unfinished London.
@stephenh6479
@stephenh6479 7 ай бұрын
They even got a pronunciation wrong... sort of. Cirencester is traditionally pronounced Sisester. Although most people now, even most locals, pronounce it Sirencester (Not sure that is the best way to write that..but basically the way they did). However friends will still say they are going into Sis or they work in Sis as an abbreviation.
@andrewmoore7416
@andrewmoore7416 7 ай бұрын
Try this one "Ulgham"....just north of Newcastle....did you try it?...."uffam"???..
@lashworthmusic
@lashworthmusic 7 ай бұрын
please do more map men videos they are incredible
@StevenSmith-mj7pz
@StevenSmith-mj7pz 7 ай бұрын
Awwww cute. Congratulations 🥰🥰🥰
@60march
@60march 7 ай бұрын
I used to live near a village called Aveton Gifford but it was pronounced ouhton Gifford with a distinct ga. Strange because it was next to the river Avon
@DavidTate-nn5ie
@DavidTate-nn5ie 7 ай бұрын
Ricky Gervais' series The Office was set in Slough. Previously best known for Mars bars. Slough as in tough ? NO, YOU MUPPET! Slough as in dough ? NO YOU MUPPET! It is Slough as in 'OW ! Stop punching me as if I am a Muppet!'
@AlastairjCarruthers
@AlastairjCarruthers 7 ай бұрын
My favourite absurdly pronounced British place name is one that I heard mentioned a lot on the local news while growing up in the North of England - the southern Scottish town of Hawick. Is it Hay-wik you may wonder, or Hah-wik? No, it's Hoyk. One syllable, rhymes with oik.
@bastiknolle5155
@bastiknolle5155 7 ай бұрын
Your dog...!! My heart!
@jamesmatthews291
@jamesmatthews291 7 ай бұрын
Awww! Ickle Boomer Baby! Congratulations to you both.
@robertobrien5709
@robertobrien5709 7 ай бұрын
J Foreman is one of those chaps that puts in a lot of research to make his videos as accurate as possible, the humoUr of the channel is one of the things that sets it apart from most others which makes watching the adverts at the end worth watching.
@TheNewSchmoo
@TheNewSchmoo 7 ай бұрын
Please do more Map Men , they are brilliant .
@vonvard9765
@vonvard9765 7 ай бұрын
Being a Mancunian, a person from Manchester. I can say we have roman ruins here. However I'm not going to pretend I'm educated enough on this topic to argue.
@WHNorthcote
@WHNorthcote 7 ай бұрын
Course you have Romans. All the chavs out roaming the streets. I'll get me coat.
@AlBarzUK
@AlBarzUK 7 ай бұрын
You obviously haven’t been to the pub yet.
@vonvard9765
@vonvard9765 7 ай бұрын
@@AlBarzUK if you only knew
@ptjogara
@ptjogara 7 ай бұрын
My brother went to uni at Aberystwyth and when I told our old PE teacher (who was from Cardiff) he laughed and told me they used to call it Aber-wrist-watch.
@mrlawilliamsukwarmachine4904
@mrlawilliamsukwarmachine4904 7 ай бұрын
Leicestershire; Warwickshire;Warwick;Leamington;Fulham;Plymouth; Dulwich;Streatham
@dougiehowe802
@dougiehowe802 7 ай бұрын
I actually live in Frome
@vonvard9765
@vonvard9765 7 ай бұрын
Are you a Frome-ite? Fromist?....Fromer
@SabretoothBarnacle
@SabretoothBarnacle 7 ай бұрын
He's King Froomer
@arnabbiswasalsodeep
@arnabbiswasalsodeep 7 ай бұрын
Map men are my fav, wouldn't mind more react to it
@Kantami
@Kantami 7 ай бұрын
they should have done more in Scotland to see if they can pronounce Drumnadrochit, Ecclefechan, or Auchtermuchty😂
@jamescrompton541
@jamescrompton541 7 ай бұрын
Milngavie, Findochty, Kirkcudbright all say “Hi!”
@stewartjones2370
@stewartjones2370 7 ай бұрын
Also kirkcaldy , and Kirkland
@susangarvey9415
@susangarvey9415 7 ай бұрын
Winchester used to be the English capital. Alot of our surnames are Saxon French or Viking, i think my greatgrandmothers so Scottish sounding surname of Paterson is Viking.
@aww.funvids7589
@aww.funvids7589 10 күн бұрын
10:53 “Beep Boop Boop” 😂
@Turn1t0ff
@Turn1t0ff 7 ай бұрын
I used to spend 4 days a month working away in... Frome. I intuitively knew to pronounce it "Froom" despite not knowing of the place previous to that. Perhaps my old family holidays in Somerset and Devon in the 80's set my subconscious ready for it.
@Neenie1976
@Neenie1976 7 ай бұрын
I’m in Hertfordshire 😁
@THC-TheHereticalcomplainer
@THC-TheHereticalcomplainer 7 ай бұрын
Ey up from Yorkshire. I don't usually comment but I thought the brief PB & QB interlude was grand. Love the instant draw from your job. True Dad right there. Map Men are spot on too 👍 Now I'm off to vomit!
@sequilla
@sequilla 7 ай бұрын
More Vic and Bob please: Shooting Stars or perhaps House of Fools (a very goofy sitcom they did). Also Alan Partridge and of course more Map Men!
@Rob_Infinity3
@Rob_Infinity3 7 ай бұрын
2:26 - That's what she said! 😂
@kemipue
@kemipue 7 ай бұрын
Lol how the map of hard to pronounce place names has Hunstanton even though most people pronounce it as it’s written rather than the option of Hunts’ton, but it doesn’t have Happisburgh pronounced Hayesbruh.
@Darren71Baker
@Darren71Baker 7 ай бұрын
I am from the uk and i found the video interesting i used to live in Gothham which most people from Nottingham say it as goatham for some reason.
@BenWKnowles
@BenWKnowles 7 ай бұрын
I live near a village called Trottiscliffe. Pronounced “Troz-Lee”. 🤷‍♂️
@timsully8958
@timsully8958 7 ай бұрын
Jays channels are the nuts mate. Always informative and very wonderfully silly. Even the adverts are funny 🤷🏻‍♂️ As for Llanfairpwyllgwyngyllgocherychyndrobyllantysilliogogogoch, is is a silly made up name which most people shorten to Llanfair PG…and still don’t even pronounce that properly either! 🤣😂😅 My family live in Holyhead which is on Anglesey, the same island you find Llanfair PG. there is a song you can sing that teaches you how to say it but it takes practice 😉 Cheers matey 👍🍻🍀
@Stephkuk1977
@Stephkuk1977 7 ай бұрын
Omg I cannot believe my home town Frome was the first place to be mentioned 😮
@russellstanton7583
@russellstanton7583 7 ай бұрын
In Shepshed Leicestershire we have a football ( Shepshed Dynamo) that plays at Butt Hole lane...cue the fans favourite song. " if you like it up the Butt Hole clap your hands "...
@ScottishDeeSideEye
@ScottishDeeSideEye 7 ай бұрын
Some weird places in America - Dinosaur, Colorado. Fries, Virginia. Placentia, California. Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. Soda Springs, Idaho. Bangs, Texas. Whynot, North Carolina. Cut and Shoot, Texas. Three Way, Tennessee. Climax, Michigan 😂😂❤
@keithc9461
@keithc9461 7 ай бұрын
Thank you King Boomer and The Queen and princess, peace ✌️
@mrd4785
@mrd4785 7 ай бұрын
I don't know if you noticed that all the place names on the south-western tip of England were of celtic origin (with no Roman, Anglo-Saxon or Viking names)? Cornwall is the only part of England that is distinct from the rest in that respect, but it is not a separate nation like Wales or Scotland. To get your attention, I might also mention that this was where most of the pirates would sail to/from on the British isles back in the day. Might be worth looking into if you are curious. People historically from that region can often trace their way back via distinctive surnames that only emanate from that region.
@ChuckFerris
@ChuckFerris 7 ай бұрын
‘Hot diggity woo’ the best
@BAKPDL
@BAKPDL 7 ай бұрын
Don’t know if anyone has mentioned this fact England was once spelt Angland (Anglo Saxon era) but still pronounced the way it’s today and changed to England after hundreds of years
@mrspacechicken123
@mrspacechicken123 7 ай бұрын
One does not simply skip a Jay Foreman ad
@JackNap1er14
@JackNap1er14 7 ай бұрын
as Steve O & Johnny Knoxville said in Jackass "there is a school in Mianas"
@michaelwilkinson3296
@michaelwilkinson3296 7 ай бұрын
All right Kingy ? Hows your belly for spots ? Iive in darkest Kent . We have a village near Severnoaks called Wrotham but its said Root em . I think its because the W is silent as in Pee in bath . Kind Regards
@dukbud6065
@dukbud6065 7 ай бұрын
Congrats on the new addition princess Boomer.
@danielgardecki1046
@danielgardecki1046 7 ай бұрын
*Map Men - Why British cities make no sense* = The best video they've ever done, as they acknowledge the fact that *London is not a city.*
@edwinknight5204
@edwinknight5204 7 ай бұрын
Map men are ace, very funny and you learn a lot.
@falafel4618
@falafel4618 7 ай бұрын
Jay Foreman is excellent!
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