This kills the ESL
Wurstersher
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>>220479311uorstărșaiăr
>>220479311Volshester
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Lester
>>220479311War, Chester, Shy-Her.Now that was easy.
>>220479311PFL moment
>>220479886Nah it's wurst-er-sher
wusteshö
>>220479311akaik even EFL don't really know how to say that
>>220479311/warchestershiiiir/IPA pronunciation
>>220479311Honestly there are places in the UK where you have to be a local to know how things are pronounced as it isn't obvious. There's a structure mostly, but occasionally you'll get caught out.
>>220481503>why mon dam
>>220481503>Why mom damn
>>220479311WhoosterBut not the long oo sound that esls make
>>220481998>>220482065Wrong, foreigners always make the mistake of pronouncing our place names as if they're phonetic. It's 'Windum'. If something ends with ham it's an 'um', however you wouldn't know it's 'wind' unless a local told you. Here's the hardest one I know in my county, I once had someone say 'I can tell you're not a local, it's pronounced x'. How do you think you'd pronounce this? Knowing that it's not going to be pronounced how it's spelt.
>>220482091Esls pronounce everything wrong. Watch them say Edinburgh and listen to them say Burg and not brah or borough
>>220482091>happy's burger
try this lads
>>220482225If you don't know how to say something then you look it up or copy the locals, I don't know why they come up with their own incorrect pronunciation. It'd be like me pronouncing Köln as 'coln' without an umlaut.>>220482348Fucks sake no, how do you pronounce Edinburgh? That gives you the clue for the second half.
>>220482091Happisborough>>220482374Colick
>>220482091hasbarah?
>>220482422No, even you got the second half wrong. >>220482431Closer, it's pronounced 'Haysbruh'. There's no fucking chance you'd know the first half, that's how I got outed as not being a local.
>>220482463>that's how I got outed as not being a local.just in case you're well travelled in random villages... i'm in the midlands and planning to drive to a town somewhere on the east coast and stay there for a couple of dayswas just on maps looking for lesser known places and i see happisburgh thererecommended? or anywhere else worth visiting?
>>220481503I like this part about the britisherland where there are medieval place names and their local pronounciation bears witness to how much the language has changed over centuries. it's cute, fascinating and medieval>>220482374co-wick
>>220482463>it's pronounced 'Haysbruh'Christ all mighty
Ingerlunders be like>M8 how is this remote unknown village's name pronounced? I don't fucking care, I will pronounce it following logic and the rules I've learned and if you don't like it you can go fuck yourself
>>220482636Fuck off, every Brugh in English is pronounced brah. We even shorten it down to enbrah
>>220482548The north Norfolk coast is lovely, lots of nice places there. You could maybe start west and head east, Starting at Thornham which is a posh pretty village, moving along to Wells-next-the-Sea, Holkham Hall is there which is nice for a walk but isn't national trust. Then go on to Blakeney, great for wildlife around there, Sheringham which is a nice seaside town, there's also a tank museum near it I ahven't been to and an old railway. Then you could end at Cromer. There's stuff to do in Cromer, decent fish and chips, Fellbrigg hall is there too and is nice. If you're going int the summer the sea is great for a swim in the summer along there too.>>220482640There are rules, if you know them you can pronounce most things, like this>>220482374
>>220482640did you know that in Liverpool there's something called the liver building but it's not pronounced liver as in the organ, but more like the "live" in "alive"?
>>220482586Is it not the same in other languages at all? I know that the written language can be phonetic, but surely a load of your place names are a mystery still and you need to look into old etymologies to have an idea of where the word came from
>>220482548>>220482704Forgot to add, Holt is really nice too>>220482727Hadn't heard of that, it has an interesting background>The Liverpool Lyver Burial Society was founded by a group of working men from Liverpool in the Lyver Inn on 24 July 1850 to "provide for the decent interment of deceased members"
>>220479311If you think it's just ESL, try to get an American to say it.
>>220482760>EdinburghBad>ÄteritsiputeritsipuolilautatsijänkäGood
>>220482691Nah man, for me it's rather the "Happis" that is pronounces as "Hays" that is a surprise.(Even though I will be honest, I may pronounce the "brugh"-part not in a perfectly local way as well even if I tried)
>>220482788>>220482704thanks might just drive down the norfolk coast and stay in a few different places over the bank holiday weekend (might do a cheeky call in sick on tuesday as well)
>>220479311https://voca.ro/1g6kS1nhuwws
>>220482873Mind the traffic, you get tonnes of caravans up here and they'll all be heading home on Monday.
>>220482760>but surely a load of your place names are a mystery still and you need to look into old etymologies to have an idea of where the word came fromwell you see, this part is very much true. but it doesn't mean that the pronounciation is completely different from how you're expected to pronounce the place name. many languages are very much accurate in the way that the way it's written is how it's supposed to be pronounced>that's because... le... le your language was a written language so late xdSpanish.
England has a lot of places like that, the name is not pronounced as it is writtenreally cool names start showing up in Wales and stuff
>>220482938I see, so you can read it just fine but not necessarily have an idea what the word actually means, interesting A lot of the common parts of the names of places here are re-used, so even if we don't use the words any more they can give you a hint about what the word means. Like, -chester comes from castrum, a word the Romans used for fortification, so you know there's normally a castle nearby
>>220483016I think my favorite has to be -shire because I have a fairly good grip on what it meant back in the day>so you can read it just fine but not necessarily have an idea what the word actually meansyes, for example >>220482817>ÄteritsiputeritsipuolilautatsijänkäI can pronounce perfectly even though I only know the meaning of>puoli>jänkä
>>220483193That's so cool, language is so so interesting
>>220483365is Lancaster just the bomber manufacturer or is it also a place name?
>>220483433It's a place name - loads of our bomber aircraft were named after big industrial towns. I couldn't say why though, maybe so the population felt proud of them If you're interested in naming conventions I think the names of a lot of the ships were/are really cool. A lot of them are dreamed up by posh schoolboy types and are arcane classic literature/history references or extremely plain and odd
>>220483552>I couldn't say why thoughIt's not just for vehicles and weapons. It's a relatively common practice in engineering and industry. It could be that they were first made, or even designed there. Kind of like Pittsburgh joints.
>>220483552British weapons have the coolest names
>>220482760where is that image showing like 1,000 Finnish towns whose meaning is some variation of "pissandshit"
>>220483853British cities, at least London, used to have a Gropecunt Lane, and your first guess as to why the name is likely correct. I myself live by a river whose originating lake has an island called Ruustinnanpillu, which roughly translated means "the pussy of the senior priest's wife"
>>220482091what a dogshit ass language
>>220479311Ouorcessterrechère
>>220479311Workstrshire
OP THE TUUUUUUNS!!
>>220479311War-chester-shire
>>220484622you still speak it sweaty
>>220479311Woostersheer.
British niggas be like: "hello I'm a child moleicester"
>>220479311wuh stuh shuh
>>220482760I can only think of a handful of examples where the average Frenchman may hesitate before trying to pronounce it, and even then, it usually follow basic pronunciation rules. Pic related is an example.
>>220484996
>>220479311there's a city named in my state called Worcester but we pronounce it wuh-ster
>>220483016>I see, so you can read it just fine but not necessarily have an idea what the word actually means, interestingdude it's like that for most languages using a phonetic alphabetenglish is the odd one
>>220481503Wim-ernd-em??
>>220479311the british are kinda cheating with their funny placenames like Cholmondeley, Worcester, Godmanchesteryou changed the name but kept the spelling despite entire syllables being removed across centuriesThat's like if we still spelled it Wrócisław instead of Wrocław but pronounced it the same
